Google 'officially' launches real time search

Mon 7 December 2009 22:57, Bas van den Beld

People have been talking about real time search for over a year now. Supposedly Twitter was the real time search engine. But Google started indexing faster and faster and today announces "Real Time Search".

Today Google shared some new innovations which are focussed on social, mobile and real time. In the next few days Google will roll out the new feature over their search engines. For now you might be able to see it, if you're lucky. If not, try this link which might force it for you.

Google 'officially' launches real time search

So how does it work? If you search for a topic which is 'part of the real time process" midway down the page there is a 'latest results' section with real time results. These results 'flow' so get updated all the time. You can use a "pause-button" to stop the flow and look at the results. You can then click on the latest result and look at all the other results.

The real time results consist of:

Tweets from Twitter
Content from Google News
Content from Google Blog Search
Newly created web pages
Freshly updated web pages
FriendFeed update
Jaiku updates
Identi.ca updates
TwitArmy updates

It really looks great and is a next step in search. Google does it again. More information later. See below the video Google launched.

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Comments (5)

- Raoul van den Berg
- [website]
En het werkt! Zag dit artikel 10 minuten geleden toevallig voorbij komen op Google...

Ma 7 dec 2009, 23:23
- Nathan de Vries
- [website]
Helaas werkt de link om te forceren niet, ik heb namelijk niet de realtime search =(

Di 8 dec 2009, 00:08
- An
- [website]
This is a bold, timely move that is going to lead to a massive shake up in the entire search industry. Besides TipTop (http://feeltiptop.com) which offers a unique experience that Google would not be able to
replicate easily (unless they acquire them), I do not quite see how any other real-time search engine is going to survive.

Di 8 dec 2009, 00:11
- Bas van den Beld
- [website]
sorry, link wasn't posted correctly, its in the article now. The correct link is: http://www.google.com/webhp?hl=en&esrch=RTSearch

Di 8 dec 2009, 00:29
- Menno Flikkema
- [website]
Congrats on being on the BBC Bas! Here are some nice RT examples off of Trends: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&esrch=RTSearch&gl=us&q=tige...

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&esrch=RTSearch&gl=us&q=tige...

Di 8 dec 2009, 09:34

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