Google to Launch Real Time Search

Real-time search results are becoming more prominent with platforms like Twitter giving instant results on current topics. Although Google’s search capabilities continued to shatter its competition, one hurdle has been real-time search—until now. Google announced that it will be launching real-time search in the coming days. “Now, immediately after conducting a search, you can see live updates from people on popular sites like Twitter and FriendFeed, as well as headlines from news and blog posts published just seconds before. When they are relevant, we’ll rank these latest results to show the freshest information right on the search results page”, stated Google.

How will real-time search work in Google? Users can click on “Latest results” or select “Latest” from the search options menu to view live tweets, blogs, news and other web content scrolling right on Google. Google states that users can filter their results to see only “Updates” from micro-blogs like Twitter, FriendFeed, Jaiku and others. Results are also said to be mobile-ready for on-the-go users. Google has also added “hot topics” to Google Trends to show the most common topics users are publishing to the web in real-time.

Will Google’s new real-time search flourish? Only time will tell.