Collecta has launched a new site and technology platform to enable internet search to look for real-time information streams on blogs, microblogs, news and social sites.
According to the company, the new search engine builds infrastructure based on the open messaging standard XMPP and is not a mashup of information built on top of Twitter search.
Collecta is expected to pull information and content from across the web, including messages sent to microblolgging platforms, blog posts, images posted on photos sites, as well as updates and conversations on social messaging and news sites.
The company said that it will be making a set of APIs available to developers in the near future to enhance collaboration and application development around its real-time data platform.
Gerry Campbell, CEO of Collecta, said: Collecta shoots information to users the instant it’s published – we’re aiming for second and sub-second latencies, not hours or days. This approach is a complete transformation from the traditional system of indexing, storing, crawling, and retrieving that has dominated the search market to date. Collecta is a river, while traditional search architectures are oceans.
