There are hundreds of search engines out there, and still only the word ‘Googled‘ can enter the dictionaries. After writing about newer and innovative search engines like Cuil, Numeo and Yahoo Glue, I stumbled upon this newest real-time search engine called Collecta.
The search options on the left hand side of the screen defines where the real-time search is performed, and by logic, Twitter results find precedence to most other pointers to the story or search term. It’s good to see a search engine like this that gives a snapshot of the story or tweet on the right-hand side, when you click on the individual results. Having said that, this search engine requires a lot of tweaking when it throws the results. Also, I somehow find this real-time search a tad slow – hope this improves as it gains popularity and acceptance in the next few months.
Overall, a nice effort by the founders and developers of Collecta in enabling real-time search that may include relevant results from the blogosphere, Twitter and Flickr. However, they need to expand their search base to include more results, instead of the 10 results in 40 seconds or 71 results in 2 minutes.
Just try it out and let me know what you think.
Its just doing twitter search.
Yep, they will survive if they move beyond this present search results page. Else, people will notice only the not-so-worthy twitter messages on their search terms.