Omgili blog

@ the beginning of the week, Google@Omgili was reviews on ReadWriteWeb – since then, we received many feedbacks (that we love). The most noticeable input was to incorporate a real-time factor into the service. Now, real-time is very trendy today  (where real-time is a synonym for Twitter) and it is mostly used for checking out the buzz about a brand, or a service. I use Twitter search to see if someone wrote something interesting about Omgili, or if Gmail is down for everyone. We wanted to create a service that will appeal to a wider audience, and we think we did.

Yes, it was fast (about 3 days of development), but we created a section on Google@Omgili that is utilizing the real-time factor into a useful service for everyone. On the left of the screen you can see an ongoing update of Tweets about your query, but on the right, you get the current popular links everybody is talking about. The score of the link is determined by the number of users that tweeted about this link and the time lapse between Tweets. Links that are being tweeted very fast will rise fast even higher than a link with more tweets. The time-frame of the calculation changes according to the query popularity. If the topic is “hot” then the time frame we take into consideration may be the past minute. If the topic isn’t very hot right now the time-frame will grow wider. Keeping the page open will automatically update the links and tweets continually in real-time with the latest tweets, trends and hot links.

The service will give you an indication of the hottest sites about the topic you were searching, in real-time as they are being propagated among internet users. So if you want to know what’s going on with North Korea, you will get the latest sources that people are recommending on their tweets.

As usual we would love to get your feedback, and add/remove features accordingly. We hope you will find this new feature useful.
Ran Geva,
Omgili CEO