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Collecta: Another Real-time Search Engine Bites the Dust

in Social on January 19, 2011 at 6:09 pm PT

Los Angeles-based start-up Collecta has shuttered its real-time search business, including a destination site, API and publisher widgets. The company follows OneRiot, Ellerdale and other competitors that have hightailed away from indexing status updates from social services, which a couple of years ago had seemed like an enormous opportunity.