Right Now Search

With all this talk of Google wanting to buy Twitter, it got me thinking about the exciting potential for real-time searching. I've seen some greasemonkey scripts for adding Twitter search results into Google, but i wanted something a little bit different. I wanted to search multiple places and bring them together in columns. Something a bit like this:

Right Now Search

So i spent the whole afternoon figuring out how to do it (and in the process, learning how to do object-oriented PHP!) and you can try it out here: rightnow.aimee.mychores.co.uk

I need help on making it more interactive. It should be fairly easy to define new search locations like plugins. I want people to be able to choose which they wish to search on. I would like AJAX updating with auto refreshing. And of course i need a lot of help with the design!

If you fancy having a play, fork it on Github! github.com/sermoa/right_now_search :)

Posted: April 5th, 2009
Categories: geeky, interesting, twitter, web 2.x
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  • nice post
  • Nice vision Aimee. I must admit you do really have the eye for easy work and that must be what we all are thinking especially with the digital and techie world that we're in. Next thing we know is we are all a blink of an eye away from what we want to find out in the internet. :D
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