Real-time searching
With the advent of such sites as Twitter, FriendFeed, and
Facebook, people on the Net can make searches in real-time -
meaning, they can obtain results that have been posted just a
second ago. Google, however, has also updated their search
technology to produce real-time results like the three sites
mentioned above. This is easier if you have a blog at Blogger.
When you already have indexed the atom.xml feed of that blog
at Google Webmaster Tools, as soon as you have posted to your
Blogger.com blog, and placed in the tags section the important
key words of the blog post, it will be indexed fast so that
searchers can make a search query, and also obtain real-time
results from Google. What I have personally observed is that
Google places these real-time results in the first page of its
search results for your Google custom search tool. As for
the main search engine, Google places a "web options" tab
so that you can search for results in real-time. You can
select which time frame you want to search for results in
real-time.
Google as the most comprehensive source
Given that Google also has the technology to produce search
results in real-time, it still stands out as the most complete
and comprehensive source of information. Now, we do not only
get all the archived information since Google started indexing
many web pages, but we also obtain real-time search results.
Blogger.com blogs as producers of real-time info
At this point of Google's search technology update, it would
seem better to blog more in your Blogger.com blogs than to write
content in your small Catholic web site. Blogging requires less
effort and time as in writing formal content in the web site.
Once we have uptodate information, we can blog about it, and
Google can also index that blog post in real-time. So, one good
strategy that we can employ in relation to this is to blog when
we have fresh information and content (so that it can get indexed
fast for real-time searches), and then write more formal content
in our web site that does not need the element of time in its
indexing.
Not to depend on one source of real-time results
As in anything in the world, nothing and no one is completely
perfect. Therefore, as we make real-time searches, we find out
that not one search technology has the answer for everything we
need to know. Sometimes Twitter would have the answer. Sometimes
it would be FriendFeed. At other times, Facebook can deliver. But
in most searches, it would be Google or Bing. What is best is to
know by experience what type of searches each search technology
can deliver well. If we know this by experience, then we can
consult the right search technology for a particular type of
search when we need to find information.
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