The Inner Workings of a Realtime Search Engine

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The Inner Workings of a Realtime Search Engine
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A white paper by OneRiot, the realtime search engine, including an analysis of search industry opportunity, realtime data sources and delivery, and PulseRank, OneRiot's page rank for the realtime web.

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