WTF Is The Value of Real-time Search?
jlees: I can't really think of a better way to follow breaking opinions than real-time search. Sure, if you wait a while you can get news indexing from Google, but it's the bias that you want. Especially if, say, you're at a conference/event and want to know what's kicking. We found real-time search particularly valuable for a month-long comedy festival, as it let opinions aggregate, yet much of that information (so-and-so is doing a really cool show this year) wasn't picked up by, say, Google.