Yesterday a new – and amazingly cool – search engine launched. I don’t know if it’s a competitor to Google so much as a complement to Google.
Collecta is a real-time search engine. It lets you search through what is happening right now in blog posts and articles, comments, Twitter, Jaiku, Identi.ca, and Flickr. The difference between it and Google is Collecta is pulling everything in as it happens. Google tends to run a day or so late.
You can run multiple Collecta searches at a time. My searches (one for Really Goode Job and one for iPhone 3.0) each took about 30 seconds to initally show results. You can modify your search parameters with where to search (ie, search in comments, but not blog posts).
It’s still a pretty basic site, but it offers a lot of promise and a different way to approach search. With real-time Twitter search already here, and real-time Facebook search on it’s way, what is happening Right Now is obviously the direction search is taking. Collecta might already be out in front of the game.
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