A scalable real-time search engine for fast retrieval of social media content

The world wide web of today publishes a great number of real-time content, causing the increasing need for a differentiated way of searching. In this paper, three issues related to retrieving real-time content are presented, and their applications are proposed. First, the characteristics of real-time content, as well as the concept of real-time search are introduced. Second, the real-time technologies that enable real-time search are described. Finally, a platform for application services utilizing real-time search is proposed.