It’s taken them over a month to get it live, but Google have now officially launched real-time search.
We first told you about Google’s deal with Twitter to bring up-to-the-minute search results back in October. At the time there was a lot of speculation on how Google would present this data to searchers. Well, here’s how it looks:
When compared to Bing and Yahoo!’s real-time offerings, Google is first class. You have to go to a completely separate page to view Bing’s real-time results, while Yahoo! doesn’t actually show the tweets themselves but the links to Twitter.
On the other hand, Google’s real-time search functionality will appear in main search results pages, just below the News results and above the top ranking natural search results.
In addition to including Facebook in its stream in the future, Google said it will be the first search company to partner with MySpace for real-time search. Here is a list of the data sources that are currently included:
- Tweets from Twitter
- Content from Google News
- Content from Google Blog Search
- Newly created web pages
- Freshly updated web pages
- FriendFeed updates
- Jaiku updates
- Identi.ca updates
- TwitArmy updates
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