Bit.ly Wants To Predict The Future With Realtime Social Search

Screen Shot 2011-10-13 at 3.02.46 PMLink shortening service Bit.ly just announced the launch of its beta search platform and "reputation monitoring" service for its paying Enterprise customers. Apparently Bit.ly has been crawling every URL its shorten for "virality" (I guess that's what they were doing all this time) in an attempt to provide a snapshot of content that's trending and interestingly enough content that's going to trend through user search.

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