Google Indexes Social Networking

Google has indexed major social networking sites in nineteen languages, according to a Computerworld article by Juan Carlos Perez. I suspect this will eventually be subjected to a patent lawsuit, such as the one that Google and Microsoft are facing over instant search.

-DD

Real-Time Search

Kristin Burnham explains that real-time search engines "index updates from social communities such as Twitter, Delicious, Flickr and YouTube, providing you with a peek into the hot discussion topics on the Web."

-D.D.