Real Time Search Live in Google

Google have been very busy innovating because as from yesterday a selective number of users can now view “latest results” which is the incorporation of the most up to date relevant results in to the search results, all of this being done in real time. This will slowly be rolled out to all English speaking users. The most anticipated feature which we have all been waiting for is the inclusion of twitter results in Google. The new development will also see results being pulled in from news sources, blogs, and social media such as YouTube and Flickr. Here are the results when you do a search for Christmas Shopping

So far I have seen to see “latest results” for generic search queries (typically one, two words), what is even more interesting is the fact that Google will serve latest results even when Google is pulling in news results too. This means that you can see even more up to date developments on a current news story. The beauty of this is that users will be able to see latest results for stories that are not even “hot topics”, so users will be able to read real time results for TV programs, sport events, or even computer games. A search for “Modern Warfare 2” will show you tweets of everyone loving this game.

Google is really trying to stay one step ahead of the competition. I wonder what they will do next? Here is a short clip of Google showing off what the new latest results could show.