Wednesday, December 9, 2009

Google’s real-time search is now live in U.K.

Google Yahoo Msn UpdatesGoogle recently announced real-time search is now not just limited to the Trends page. It is now live across searches on Google.co.uk. The search giant announced the new feature on Monday — it pulls in public data from Twitter, MySpace and Facebook and makes use of it to surface content that has been recently published and shared.

Basically, whenever users search for something, the most recent news articles and posts on sites like Twitter will be straight away into your results, and those results will be updated instantaneously as new articles and tweets appear.

• If you do a search for “Obama,” you may see the latest news articles and tweets, and as you look at the page, more updates are added as they are published.

• Google has previously added time filters to its different search options, so you can now see results from the past day or hour. Now it is adding an option called “latest,” highlighting these real-time results, and an “update” view showing each addition to the search results as it is published.

• These real-time results will be available on Android phones and iPhones too.

Google says it developed “dozens of new technologies” to make this happen, such as a language model that can recognize which updates contain new information, and which are just “weather buoys” automatically repeating information posted by others.

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