Searching the Live Web is an altogether different beast, as we’ve said. The tools are still en utero. The Community Engine Blog points out that mass conversation tracking via the current tools just isn’t cutting it.

Doc expands on the reasons that Live Web searching is tougher:

I suggest that the two breeds are Static Web Search and Live Web Search. The Static Web is the one with sites that are designed and architected and constructed and are, on the whole, buildings on real estate that front the Web. The Live Web is the one that’s written and authored and published and blogged and podcast and tagged and syndicated. There is some overlap, of course. Static Web search engines cover both. They just do a better job with static sites than they do with live ones. Live Web search engines (including Bloglines, Blogpulse, Google Blogsearch, Icerocket, Pubsub, Technorati and Yahoo’s blog results sidebar on its news search), by responding to RSS feeds, only follow the Live Web.

Here’s another difference: The Live Web engines are evolving a lot faster, and a lot more responsively, to a market they can’t help following if they do their job.

Plus, good news: Doc is doing a book on the Live Web. Open source style, natch. I’ll be tracking that conversation, fo sho.

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