Could Facebook’s social search patent mean that it is building an alternative to Google? If so, the social media giant will have to set itself apart in a field already crowded with big players and some innovative upstarts. Read more »
One of the keys to monetizing NewNet technologies like real-time feeds and social media will be harnessing the massive amounts of data they create. In recent weeks, there have been a handful of announcements illustrating creative ways of using this data. But most of them have ... Read more at GigaOM Pro »
Wowd, a real-time search engine, may not have figured out how to get its own service to scale to a large audience yet, but it’s about to get some validation that it’s on the right track — in the form of two patents. Read more »
