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The Trump-Xi Beijing Summit: What the Smiling Handshakes Won't Tell You

On Thursday, Donald Trump will walk into the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, shake Xi Jinping's hand, and declare it a great meeting. There will be announcements. There will be numbers — billions of dollars in Chinese purchase commitments, a new bilateral mechanism with an important-sounding name, possibly a joint statement on Iran. Trump will post on Truth Social. Markets will rally briefly. Pundits will argue about who won. None of that will tell you what actually happened. What is actually happening in Beijing this week is something more consequential and more uncomfortable than the summit theatre will reveal: two leaders of two deeply mutually dependent superpowers, both of whom need this meeting to succeed for entirely different reasons, sitting across a table in a world that has already moved past the assumptions that defined their last nine months of negotiations. The Iran war changed the equations. The rare earth gambit changed the power balance. Taiwan is sitting in...

Four Real-Time search engines redefining Search

What is so special about Real-time search engines and how are the different from traditional  search engines like Google, Bing and Yahoo. Well real-time search engines are specialized and stick mostly to real time content. So as apposed to traditional search engines that will mix their data with real-time results. Real-time search engines can go much deeper. They can find you user comments from blogs, tweets, status updates and what not. They primary focus is to bring you the internet in real time and therefore are becoming popular to people who want to follow what's happening as it happens. Let's look at a few 1. Collecta . When you go to their home page they have a list of the most happening topics from around the web with links for you to go directly to that story. If you enter a search query they immediately look up your query in Stories as in blog posts, comments in blog posts, updates from Twitter, Jaiku, Identica. Photos from Twitpic, yfrog and Flickr. Videos from Yo...

Google adds real-time search with Facebook, Twitter, Myspace

Google is upgrading it's search engine by adding real-time search. The way this is going to happen is by adding updates from Facebook, Myspace and Twitter beside search queries. "Google said that over the next few days its users would begin seeing brand-new tweets, blog items, news articles and social networking updates in results for certain topical searches " Google struck formal deals with Facebook. Twitter and Myspace to officially bring real-time search results. There will hardly be any delay with it's updates. "Google introduced several other products at its event on Monday. The most ambitious, called Google Goggles , allows people to send Google a cellphone photograph of, say, a landmark or a book, and have information about the contents of the image returned to them instantly." Google once again bounces back with a feature that was badly needed a long time ago. Search engines cannot afford to ignore the value of real time search. Certi...