December 08, 2009
Real Time in Google
Google Launches Real Time Search by Danny Sullivan, Search Engine Land ( Dec 7)
Google has added real-time feeds to its search results. This will show as Latest results for among other web search results - probably a few items down the page. New items scroll down in a small panel. Frankly, I'd prefer if Google had placed this in a place on the page separate from other results.
This only shows when Google detects a real-time component to the query and finds relevant results.
It gets its information from:
* 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
Latest results show on Google.com for climate change , but not, as far as I can see, on Google.ca even though Identi.ca is one of the sources.
It is also possible to view the real time feed from the Show Options as Updates under All Results, or Latest under Any Time.
There is a real-time component to Google Trends as well - the Hot Topics column on the left of the page.
Posted by Gwen at December 8, 2009 02:46 AM