Google Real Time Search
Google has launched their brand new 'real-time' search to give users up-to-the-second information.
The new data has been gathered from more than a billion pages on the web and will scroll past in real-time, without any need to refresh the page. This ensures that Google users can now see updates from sites such as Twitter and Facebook immediately on the search results page.
The information will be shown within Google's normal results page and will also be available on smart phones like the iPhone.
A spokesman for Google said: 'Now, immediately after conducting a search, you'll be able to see live updates from people on popular sites like Twitter and Friendfeed, as well as headlines from news and blog posts that have been published seconds ago.
'All of these updates are ranked to show the freshest, most relevant results related to what you're looking for.'
'There is so much information being generated out there that getting you relevant information is the key to the success of a product like this. It's all about relevance, relevance, relevance.'
Google said the feature is now live and will take a couple of days to be rolled out across the world. Updates from Twitter will be included right away, while those from Facebook and MySpace are not expected to be integrated into results until the new year.
As social networking sites become increasingly popular forums for swapping opinions, offering news tips and highlighting interesting stories, Google, Yahoo and Microsoft have all been scrambling to retool their search engines so they reel in and showcase real-time data more rapidly.
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