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CrowdEye Launches CrowdRank for Twitter-Based Real-Time Search Results

6 months ago

CrowdEye - Seattle based startup recently joined the ring "real time search engine". Similar to other real-time search engine Scoopler and Collecta, CrowdEye also track results from Twitter. CrowdEye's innovative technology scan through all tweets, retweet and other Twitter links to show what exactly users needed in real time. [Read More]

CrowdEye launches their own real-time ranking algorithm "CrowdRank", it's similar to Google page rank.“CrowdEye Rank is to Twitter Search on CrowdEye just as PageRank is to web search on Google” said Moss.

CrowdRank depends on various factors including number of followers, whether you are a “verified” user or not, how frequent the user tweeting and how many times the link has been retweeted. Now every Twitter user will have an CrowdRank rated between 0 - 100 below thw user avatar.

@aplusk stands on top with CrowdRank 96 follwed by @theellenshow, @britneyspears, @the_real_shaq, @oprah and the list goes on. The fact is if some one with higher CrowdEye tweets or retweet any link, then this will be added more value and shown on top when users search on it in real-time.

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Collecta : Share Your Search Results On Twitter,FaceBook in Real-Time

Technology InternetBy ManojKumar

6 months ago

Collecta is an recent and powerfuk entry to real-time search war, After Twitter, FaceBook and other social media's dominance web search switches to real-time for fresh and breaking news content. The major difference between normal web search and realtime search is "content freshness", realtime search shows recent result at that moment of search and keeps on search for next new update and displays in realtime. [ Read More ]

Collecta founded by Gerry Campbell former SVP of Search for AOL and co-founded with Jack Moffitt, Brian Zisk, and Patrick Mahoney. Derek Powazek of JPG Magazine fame is the creative director.

Collecta does a great job in realtime search, these resuts come from Twitter, of course, but also from news feeds, blog posts, comments, videos from YouTube, Ustream and Flickr, TwitPic, yFrog photos. Status updates on Jaiku and Identica are also captured.