Real-time search is, appropriately enough, going to become quite visible very soon. Google announced today that it’s rolling out real-time features, and the comprehensiveness of this effort is almost unprecedented as Facebook, MySpace, and Twitter are all onboard.
Google’s list of partners doesn’t stop there; FriendFeed, Identi.ca, and Jaiku are also cooperating. Plus, standard blogs, news sites, and other Google properties (like YouTube) are contributing to the stream of information that’ll become available following a standard search.
On the Official Google Blog, Google Fellow Amit Singhal explained how the arrangement will work. He wrote, “[I]mmediately 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.”
The effect has the potential to be useful and looks natural enough. (It’s possible to click on the “Latest results” line and see a full page of real-time info, too.)
This should become available across the world over the next few days. If you wind up testing the real-time search function with a Google-related query, just get ready to see a lot of folks echoing one sentiment of Singhal’s: “I’m tremendously excited about these significant new real-time search features.”
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