Search the Future
Standard Internet search engines like Google, MSN, or Yahoo search for things that have already been written, therefore they search in the past. A very clever web site allows you to search in the future!
PubSub calls their technology a "matching service" rather than a search engine, but it's all in the way you look at it. You create a search in PubSub by simply adding your search terms and clicking "Start Matching Now!" PubSub adds the search to what they call a "subscription stack", basically a list of future searches you have created. They also give you a link that you can bookmark, and later check back to see if there is any new content that matches your search terms. PubSub is a free service.
For instance, if you want to find out about any new tsunami news, you could enter "tsunami". PubSub watches over 8 million web logs and 50,000 Internet news groups for new content on "tsunami". It checks for any new matches at 3 billion matches per second, and when it finds new content it will be made available to you at the link that it provided in your subscription stack (or the link you bookmarked).
If you want to search for old news you would use a regular search engine, but if you want to find and stay on top of new information that has yet to be published, try PubSub. It also searches the US Securities & Exchange Commission's EDGAR filings, so you can stay on top of news in the corporate world. This would be handy if you were tracking stocks in various companies, for example. Keep tabs on what people are saying about you, your company, or any topic of interest to you.
PubSub also provides a handy sidebar for Internet Explorer and for Firefox.
PubSub calls their technology a "matching service" rather than a search engine, but it's all in the way you look at it. You create a search in PubSub by simply adding your search terms and clicking "Start Matching Now!" PubSub adds the search to what they call a "subscription stack", basically a list of future searches you have created. They also give you a link that you can bookmark, and later check back to see if there is any new content that matches your search terms. PubSub is a free service.
For instance, if you want to find out about any new tsunami news, you could enter "tsunami". PubSub watches over 8 million web logs and 50,000 Internet news groups for new content on "tsunami". It checks for any new matches at 3 billion matches per second, and when it finds new content it will be made available to you at the link that it provided in your subscription stack (or the link you bookmarked).
If you want to search for old news you would use a regular search engine, but if you want to find and stay on top of new information that has yet to be published, try PubSub. It also searches the US Securities & Exchange Commission's EDGAR filings, so you can stay on top of news in the corporate world. This would be handy if you were tracking stocks in various companies, for example. Keep tabs on what people are saying about you, your company, or any topic of interest to you.
PubSub also provides a handy sidebar for Internet Explorer and for Firefox.
posted by Peter at
10:50 PM
