SEOmoz: A Bad Day for Search Engines: How News of Michael Jackson’s Death Traveled Across the Web
Monday, 29 June 2009, 13:25
"The events of Thursday demonstrated that Google is falling behind in the emerging real-time web. It was 3 hours and 17 minutes after TMZ first announced Michael Jackson had experienced cardiac arrest before it appeared as a auto completion suggestion on Google's homepage. In the computer age that is a huge amount of time. It is 3 hours and 17 minutes during which consumers may choose to go somewhere other than Google to get the information they want."
ReadWriteWeb: Times Wire: New York Times Experiments With Real Time News, FriendFeed Style
Tuesday, 12 May 2009, 14:13
"Times Wire is a useful new product and shows that the NYT is actively tapping into two big trends on the Web currently: real time information and personalization."
