This is beyond ridiculous. Real time search is something you care about a tiny, tiny fraction of a percent of the time. And when you do, Twitter is still pretty near worthless. You heard a plane crashed in the river, so you search Twitter, and see a bunch of posts like "OMG a plane crashed in a river, now I'm going to the gym." and maybe a picture of a submerged plane. Who cares?
You won't destroy Google by building a search service that does nothing but break news 5 minutes before CNN does.
is still open. Sadly, I think you can get the job done with one static HTML page these days, and it does not include <h1>YES</h1> in it.
Edit: My little brother remarked to me, regarding "What GPS tracking unit?": "It seems like there is only one good writer on Heroes, and his contract dictates that he only be told to work on scenes between Hiro and Ando."
Maybe people will wake up and realise that real time doesn't actually matter; you can easily keep up to date polling 1-2x per month if you really wanted to.
It's not like anything truly vanguard happens more than a few times per year in most industries. And it's not twitter or bloggers that do it. Real innovation happens so infrequently that it's pretty easy to keep up if you have a system.
Unfortunately most young programmers I talk to don't even read papers [where the real action happens]!! They read blogs & twitter. Perhaps they don't realize that this IS science, and the plural of anecdotes on twitter et al do not make data.
You won't destroy Google by building a search service that does nothing but break news 5 minutes before CNN does.