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OneRiot's Search Engine Banks on Twitter - News and Analysis by PC Magazine

OneRiot's Search Engine Banks on Twitter - News and Analysis by PC Magazine

Instead of crawling and indexing the entire Internet Google-style, OneRiot indexes only Web pages that are shared on Twitter and Digg, and uses the number of shares of a URL to determine how high it will rank in the search results. As a news article, blog post, or video gets passed around, it gains search relevance.