Google opened a new specialty search engine for real-time search - http://www.google.com/realtime. The function is the same as that found under the Update option on the left panel of Google search.
Putting Google Realtime to Real-World Use, Tony Bradley, PCWorld (Aug 27)
Sees this as being most useful to companies for watching what is said about them and their products.
"The significance of monitoring real-time Facebook status updates and Twitter tweets is that it is raw, unfiltered information. When a customer has a bad experience at a restaurant, he is not shy about sharing that information with the Twitterverse. When someone really loves the movie she just saw, odds are fair that the Facebook social network will hear about it."
New Google Realtime Search with Realplay, Pandia (Aug 29)
"Google Realtime can also be used to research trends and retrace the development of a particular happening, let’s say a natural disaster or a political scandal."
Posted by Gwen at August 31, 2010 03:46 PM