The Real-Time Search is the Holy Grail of the search industry, the battle to be the first search engine to successfully integrate Real-Time results, in a usable format, into a search engine continues. Scour are the latest company to launch their version of integration but is it a success?



Scour have taken a very nice and simple approach to adding Real Time search. Instead of building a new interface or allowing users to search specifically for Twitter users, Scour have directly integrated results into their existing listings. Whenever a Real-Time result is displayed, Scour place an orange rosette logo next to the listing to identify its source. This simple approach does help to quickly find a Twitter post by a keyword search. One thing we have noticed is that the data does seem to be a little out of date and it would be interesting to know how frequently the data is being refreshed.

On the whole it’s a great first attempt and one of the simplest methods of integration we have seen so far. We really like it, it would be great to hear your opinion.

Article by Creative SEO UK