Google Launches Real-Time Search

Google has just launched real-time search, live up to the minute results from sources around the internet integrated into it's search results pages.

Google real-time search updates as things happen around the Web, ie live tweets from Twitter, Yahoo Answers, news articles and Web pages now stream in on the actual result pages for your search query. As well as web browsers real-time search also works on iPhone and Android mobiles.

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Twitter, MySpace and Facebook Deals

Real-Time Search comes from complaints from searchers that they could find more relevant results from other sources. After the death of Michael Jackson it was easier to find up to the minute information on Twitter than from Google's search results. To make their search more relevant Google’s announced that they’ve signed partnerships with Twitter, Facebook and MySpace to pull in data in real-time. For Twitter this is tweets relating to the search query. For Facebook, that means public Facebook Pages, and for MySpace, it means any stream data that is publicly available.

Staying in Front

Google says the features aren’t available to everyone yet, but will be within the next few days. Then you will be able to see the Real-Time search on the first page of Google - a place usually only achieved with hard work and investment in SEO. The pressure is now on content providers to update their websites fast enough to be included in the search results. For now at least, Google is back to being the most up-to-date search provider online.