Thanks for the share!! Real time is such a hot topic and so important for many businesses!

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Thanks for giving us the OneRiot point of view. I find it interesting that it sounds like you are disagreeing with me, but you even state “Its all about understanding intent and that is derived by the signals used to determine relevance.” When I was talking about real-time search, I was talking about what you and some of your competitors currently provide, essentially a search index of real time data. As you say though, there is intent and relevance, and you get into pattern detection as well. That definitely leads to something bigger than the limited view of real-time search we have now. I am curious to see where you can take it.

These are just two RT queries that are being monetized today, news is a third. I am not suggesting that a new index type is not necessary, in fact i would argue RT indexes like the one we create at OneRiot will do a better job of coverage on real time type queries. Its all about understanding intent and that is derived by the signals used to determine relevance.

From a technology perspective RT is also tightly aligned with real world traffic patterns and designed to minimize a web server load. I just wrote a blog post on this topic, http://menro.me. The fetch style crawler used by RTS actually help a web site owner predict when traffic is about to materialize. Where traditional web crawlers are about taking resources today for the hope of traffic tomorrow.

Who “owns” the data is something that is being argued a lot lately. I can’t possibly answer it in a blog comment either, it requires a post of its own.

Also, I do not have a talk radio show, so I am guessing you are thinking of someone else.

An interesting and challenging point I have been considering is: Who owns the “data” we are offering up about our whereabouts, our tendencies and other proclivities? In one sense it’s our data, but as most EULA’s note — the application and/or carrier of said data owns it. We’d like to think that people will use this data for good purposes and with good intentions. However, “our” data could also be used against us in too many ways to list here.

Real Time Search is here to stay — whether we acknowledge it or not. The fact is these technologies have been operating somewhat under the covers in our cars, our grocery store purchases, and our online presence for years. Now “our” data is coming back to us in a more accessible manner so we can see what we’ve been doing and perhaps set up some rules to help us do something with it.

jeff

PS – Perhaps this is a topic to explore in more depth on your talk radio show.