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2010-12-25T16:40:24.807-08:00

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How do you improve relevancy in real-time? I gues...

2009-12-28T16:30:24.455-08:00

How do you improve relevancy in real-time?

I guess you cant exactly, well not yet. As mentioned, verification such as number of followers tweets etc. Would be considered but that would mean treating each user (and their results) like an individual website (checking against their algorithims) Problem is, people aren’t websites - and cant be verified the same. I can have 1000 followers and be a spammer. Or have 5 followers and be authentic. Also, websites build reputation over time – real time skips that process.
If we are then told to treat real time results like web results and go to those we believe are authentic, or we have subscribed to (maybe linking accounts). Then all real time results will be are glorified RSS feeds. In fact, that’s where i will put my money on. Total integration via accounts.
The results will be the first step, then the integration so they can add personalisation.
Spammers will have a good crack at this. Google isn’t stupid however, im sure everything is apart of some bigger plan. Rather to stop other search engines, integrated every account with google results, or whatever it maybe. Unlike google, the results of their plan wont be in real time i suppose lol.

Mikeh2bi , Robert, thanks for your comments and I ...

2009-12-21T23:14:20.355-08:00

Mikeh2bi , Robert, thanks for your comments and I like like your optimism around Google.

Evaluating relevancy from Tweets is one of the challenges, but real time search is not only Tweeter. Relevancy will need to be evaluated with other social media and news websites.
One other challenge for Google will also be to evaluate recency for the "traditional" piece of internet content.
Spam should also be invetigated more than ever.

Let's see what they come up with in the following months

Interesting piece Alban. It will be interesting to...

2009-12-18T13:06:46.960-08:00

Interesting piece Alban. It will be interesting to see how Google deals with the issues you have outlined. One thing is for certain, they will deal with it.

Cheers,
Robert K

Firstly, good post. In answer to your question, N...

2009-12-17T16:33:23.550-08:00

Firstly, good post.

In answer to your question, No I don't think it's the end of the Google Model, and yes they certainly will need to tweak their real time algorithm if they are going to set themselves apart from the competition, as they have done for so long now.

You're right, relevancy should be a factor for real time results. For tweets, how would they determine relevancy? By the number of followers a user has? They could run into spam related issues here as well, but it's a good start. Alternatively, you could determine tweet relevance by the number of retweets or the number of times a URL is linked from within tweets.

Danny Sullivan is right (and I had a similar thought) "spammers are smart. They’re happy to set up robotic accounts that do nothing but tweet all day".

Let's hope Google can get it right and avoid real time spam.