Posts Tagged ‘Google Search Event’

February 3rd, 2010

Google Rolls Out Its Realtime Search for the Realtime Web

Google on Monday, 7th of December rolled out realtime search for the realtime web. After announcing partnerships with Twitter and and Facebook over a month ago, Google has finally launched a realtime search for the web.

At Google’s Search Event, Google Fellow Amit Singhal described it as “It’s Google’s relevance technology meeting the realtime web”.

Google has been internally testing this for a while now. Realtime search is what is required today and Google hits the nail on its head.

A search for Google at the time of posting revealed the following ‘latest’ search results:

The realtime search will auto update itself as new updates appear in the world wide web. Unless you choose to stop the auto update it will show you the latest update as soon as its made available.

Google will offer realtime trends and this new realtime search will work on both Android devices and iPhones immediately. Google plans to include tweets, blog posts and also information from sources like MySpace apart from FaceBook and Twitter tweets.