Spend at least ten minutes on the Internet, and you’re bound to become familiar with the concept of search engines. In fact, the entire World Wide Web probably wouldn’t work unless users had some comprehensive way to find information on pages, and that’s what search engines are all about. But aren’t all those engines essentially the same? Collecta is different; keep reading to find out how, and how it might affect your site.
Google, Yahoo, Bing, Ask. They’re all different search engines, but in many ways they’re all the same. Like most other search engines out there, these sites work in the same basic way. Search engines like these scan the Internet, archiving information about the pages they find, so this data can be quickly accessed when users like you type in search terms.
It may take several hours to a few days for brand-new information to properly register on the search engine radar -- which still mostly pulls from Web pages, scanning the total data on a page before listing results in a comparative ranking system. It’s pretty complex, and that’s why so many Webmasters put so much energy into search engine optimization.
But Collecta, a different sort of search engine on the Internet scene, uses a totally new system to scan the Internet and rank what it finds there. How is this site unlike any other?
Introducing Collecta
Unlike other search engines, Collecta uses an XMPP protocol to collect content all over the Internet, condensing information into constantly-updating data streams. XMPP, inspired by XML, is used to update information on the Web in real time, and that’s just what Collecta does for searchers -- gives them real-time results that are not hours or days old.
By constantly scanning and continuously receiving information from all over the Web, Collecta strives to provide the most up-to-the-minute results on any given topic. This search engine even pulls data from micro blogging, social networking and news media sites to provide you with the most current comments, posts and opinions.
Under the search bar, the “Hot Now” subject fluctuates depending on what keyword phrase is the most popular of the moment, so you know just what people are talking about on the ‘Net. Though it’s still in beta, Collecta is slowly working to change the way we look at online searching. So, how does it work compared to the other search systems we’ve used in the past?
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