The real-time Web plays catch-up - InternetNews.com

Everyone doesn't need to know what's happening right this minute -- it just seems that way. Twitter tweets abound, up-to-the-minute news tickers are the norm on TV and keeping your status message up to date has become, well, a status symbol.

Search giants like Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) and Yahoo (NASDAQ: YHOO) have long prided themselves on providing the latest search results, but there's a difference between "latest" and "real-time." Most search engines use some of form of page rank and indexing that takes other factors like relevancy and reputation into account. This may well yield recent information, but not, for example, up-to-the-minute (or more) posts from popular social networks...