CrowdEye: the real-time search space is getting crowded

It looks like real-time search - mainly built around Twitter - is the hot new bandwagon to jump on. Twitscoop, Scoopler, Twingly, Searchmerge, Collecta ... we've written about all of these this year, and the grab for real-time search traffic hasn't stopped yet. CrowdEye is the latest entry to catch our attention in this already-crowded field.

CrowdEye is limited compared to some of the above-mentioned competitors, in that it only searches Twitter. Collecta, for example, searches photos, news stories, and other microblogging services, and offers the option to filter any of those out if they're too much for you. CrowdEye does offer some Twitter data that its competitors don't, though: the popular links results are nice, and the graph of popularity over time for your search term could also be useful. For getting a comprehensive picture of what's going on in real time, though, I think search sites are going to have to go beyond Twitter. Even popular Twitpics and Yfrog pictures would add a lot to CrowdEye, and that seems within the site's capabilities to do.

Tags: crowdeye, real-time, search, twitter