RTBot: a New Tool to Search the Internet
The RTBot search engine is a new online tool to find what you are looking for on the Internet. By combining search results from a variety of sources, RTBot offers the results in a simple format and claims to be "real time". Searching for products and services to help you with business success is divided on RTBot by these categories:
- Videos
- Wikipedia
- Images
- Twitter
- News
- Documents
- Blogs
- Weblinks
What is RTBot?
RTBot is a Real-time information service, where you can enter a topic title and instantly get related digital contents from multiple sources (e.g. Wikipedia, Youtube, Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, Books, Newspapers, Magazines) all at once.
RTBot is a global reference site, with the goal of enriching the way people research, explore, learn, discover and monitor their topics of interest
RTBot, which can also be called a Real Time Bot, is a web application structured thematically around topics, like in an encyclopedia, enhanced with a set of features and interactive functions.
Source of search results:
RTBot integrates contents loaded from different online sources under one single interface, providing a wide spectrum of digital contents and up-to-the-minute data.
For every valid topic, RTBot presents a list of modules with content loaded in real-time from multiple web services, categorized by media type or data source. By jumping modules, you hope to find fresh data and digital media from Newspapers, Magazines, Blogs, Books, Wikipedia, Youtube, Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, Social Answers and additional online resources.
Why does this matter vs. Google and other search engines?
This may be one to watch as the world becomes more mobile. With the future trends moving to touch screens on the go, website pages will need to be simple and clean.
Will RTBot be the next big hit? That is to be determined. It does make you pause for a moment and consider how much time you waste searching for what you are hungry for.
Other search tools of interest:
Delicious - Bookmarking and great for search.
Dogpile
Surfwax
Gigablast
All the Internet - all the best search engines rolled into one.
Pandia Powersearch - A directory of all search engines including an all-in-one list of search engines and directories.
Since Google remains the dominant search tool online, business owners are best served to stick close to what potential buyers use.
Wasting your time searching online?
If you waste your time looking and not finding what you seek, then it may be time to use an alert system where the information comes to you: Google Alerts
If you click on Advanced Search in Google, you will find that Google is very powerful. If you are still searching on Google without using the advanced tab, you are most likely taking twice as long to find what you need. In fact, you might find it helpful to make Advanced Search your home page.
What is the best search engine?
Does anyone know the answer to that question? Search engines are becoming personalized and geography based. The software geniuses are attempting to anticipate the wants and needs of the person searching even before they begin to type. Wait until voice activated search engines. That will be something to watch.
