OneRiot Launches Alternative Twitter Search Engine
OneRiot, a relatively new real-time search engine, launched a new Twitter search engine this morning that takes a very different approach to Twitter search from similar ventures we have seen lately. Instead of surfacing specific tweets, OneRiot focuses on shared links instead of just doing a keyword search on Twitter. While Twitter's own search, for example, will show you the conversation around the leaked copy of Wolverine, OneRiot will actually find the latest shared links about this topic on Twitter.
On the search results page, OneRiot emphasizes links, though you can also click on a small link at the bottom of each result to see the tweets that included this link. From there, you can also reply to a tweet. If OneRiot finds new tweets that fit your search, it will automatically prompt you to reload the page.
To get data about current trends on Twitter, OneRiot uses both Twitter's own API, as well as data it gathers from users who have installed OneRiot's own toolbar in their browsers.
Looking for Feedback
As OneRiot's GM Tobias Peggs told us yesterday, the company decided to test its new Twitter search feature on a separate page for now (twitter.oneriot.com), in order to get feedback from customers.
We, for one, would like to see the ability to organize results by how many users have linked to a certain page, for example. It would also be nice if OneRiot gave us the option to search for conversations around a specific link by copying and pasting a URL into OneRiot's search box.
Overall, we like OneRiot's approach to searching Twitter. In some ways, it is similar to MicroPlaza's search functionality, though OneRiot's results focus more on the real-time experience.
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Seinen gewaltigen Kunstschatz hat das Liechtensteiner Fürstenhaus auch dem waghalsigen Husarenstück zweier treuer Untertanen zu verdanken. In einem Postbus und einem Lastwagen samt Anhängern schlugen sich Andreas und Franz Ritter aus dem Dorf Mauren in den letzten Kriegstagen 1945 auf abenteuerlichen Pfaden durch Österreich. Auf allerhöchste Bitten räumten sie dort die Verstecke aus, in denen ihre Obrigkeiten Gemälde und andere wertvolle Kunstwerke eingelagert hatten. Vorbei an versprengten Truppen und unberechenbaren Kontrollposten, schmuggelten die Brüder ihre brisante Fuhre nach Liechtenstein.
Das großzügige Wohlwollen der Fürstenfamilie war ihnen fortan gewiss. Viele hundert Millionen Euro ist die weltweit einmalige Kunstsammlung derer von und zu Liechtenstein heute wert. Nur ein Bruchteil davon wird in dem Wiener Palais der Familie gezeigt; die meisten Werke sind eingelagert. Man besitzt so viele Exponate, dass bisweilen der Platz in den hoheitlichen Residenzen knapp wird. Dann wird entrümpelt - so wie im Jahr 2008. Damals ließ man mehr als 400 Stücke für fünf Millionen Euro versteigern. Nicht mehr als ein kleines Zubrot für ein Fürstenhaus, dessen Vermögen auf fünf Milliarden Euro taxiert wird.
It's all about changing behaviours... and I'm not sure that changing from one search mode to another is that significant. Real disruption comes from changing some fundamental behaviours... like how we transfer value from one person to another. Covered very well at...
http://www.mccollam.com/jakeblog/2009/04/twitter-economics/
Thinking about search as a way to make money is probably not going to work. The making money part needs to come way after RTS has proven useful to people.