Usually, Search Engines harness information from websites and other stagnant mediums and deliver it to the users as per requirements. This information may be current or even years old, depending on the search string used by the user. However, with the advent of real-time information exchange via blog posts, live feeds, social networking websites like Twitter and other online up-to-date feeds, it has become quite difficult to gather information while struggling to keep up with the ever increasing by the minute updates at the same time.

Keeping in mind the need for updated search results from such services like Twitter etc, a new search engine hit the web today. Known as ‘Collecta’, it keeps a look out all over the web for real-time information, indexes it and shows it to the users as per their requests. The results come in from various real time information services and websites, like Twitter, blogs, forums, news feeds and Flickr photos.

To test the accuracy and proficiency of this ‘real-time’ search engine, I did a search for Nokia N97 and I got more than 25 real time results and the count kept on increasing as Collecta continued to search for more updates from blogs, forums, feeds and kept updating my search results. All in all, this real time search engine is worth spending time with and results are also very much accurate.

Collecta was born in November 2008 and was founded by Jack Moffitt and Brian Zisk. Collecta CEO, Gerry Campbell wishes users to spend more and more time with this real time search engine and take advantage of all the information that it will provide them.

The search results from Collecta are streamed through an XMPP stream, meaning that the results get updated every moment Collecta gathers real time information about the search topic.

Via Mashable