Real Time vs PageRank

Researching Google Chrome OS this afternoon helped me see the real time web in a new way. The sources referenced in the real time search appear to be very different then those of traditional web search.

I ran the search “Google Chrome OS” on Google and restricted the search to the past hour.

I ran the same search on OneRiot “Google Chrome OS”.

The two biggest differences were the ads and the content sources. I am going to focus on the content sources for this article.

• Google’s sources in order:
  • News DD
    • telegraph.co.uk
    • Nillabyte.com
    • Computerworld Australia
  • General Search Results
    • PCMag
    • Telegraph.co.uk
    • Inquisitr.com

• OneRiot’s sources in order:
  • Engadget
  • YouTube
  • Googleblog
  • Techcrunch

As you dig deeper into the first and second page of results on both engines it becomes clear that PageRank style search engines like Google rank traditional publishers higher, while real time search engines rank  blogs, and videos higher.

What are your finding?