I find this definition of Real Time Search to be linked to microblogging sites to be extremely narrow and unambitious. I'm just not that interested in searches of 140 character records of people's cheeseburger or dorito eating status. I'm interested in discovering, in real time, any information, published on a publicly accessible URL, regardless of whether it's a blog, a microblog, a wikipedia article update, a new DVD arrival in Amazon's database, a new deal on SLR cameras at B&W photo, etc. With the exception of some stuff like following #IranElection, I find Twitter search extremely frustrating and underwhelming, and a far far cry from the value I got over the last 2 decades searching USENET threads. - Ray Cromwell