How the Real-Time Web Is Leaving Google Behind

Wired by Clive Thompson | Sep. 23, 2009 (Special Report)

... the real-time Web behaves in the opposite fashion. It's all about "trending topics"—zOMG a plane crash!—which by their very nature generate a massive number of links and postings within minutes. And a search engine can't spend days deciding what is the most crucial site or posting; people want to know immediately. Full Story »

Posted by Kaizar Campwala - via Jay Rosen

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Subjects: Business, Sci/Tech, Media
Topics: Google, Internet, Social Networks
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Posted by: via Jay Rosen - Sep 23, 2009 - 8:10 AM PDT
Reviewed by: Kaizar Campwala (review), Nick Pollitt (review), Juliet Sallette (review), Loren Carpenter (review), Erin Elise Accomando (review)
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Edited by: Kaizar Campwala - Sep 23, 2009 - 8:51 AM PDT
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 by Erin Elise Accomando - Sep. 28, 2009

To me, this is on the borderline between quality and useless journalism; to a person older than 40-years-old, it might be interesting and very informative. But to teenagers and 20-30-year-olds this is really old news. I don't feel like this article was necessary at all. It is somewhat relevant but only to a certain audience.

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