Tuesday, December 8, 2009

Google Enters Realm of Real-Time Search

Google's homage to E. C. Segar,
the creator of Popeye the Sailor Man

Link to December 7 New York Times article, "Google Adds Live Updates to Results ".

Excerpt: As part of its much-anticipated entrance into the field known as real-time search, Google said that over the next few days its users would begin seeing brand-new tweets, blog items, news articles and social networking updates in results for certain topical searches.

Previously it took a few minutes for updates from social networks and blogs to filter into Google’s results.

“Clearly in today’s world, that’s not fast enough,” Amit Singhal, a Google fellow, said at a press conference at the Computer History Museum here. “Information is being posted at a pace we’ve never seen before, and in this environment, seconds matter.”

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