Dec 7, 2009
Real-time Google search is Global
Google have been testing for many months a feed of data from Twitter combined with increased crawl rate for trusted news and blog posting sources (such as the Huffington Post) and have announced today at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA that they have now struck deals with both Facebook and MySpace to leverage their data feeds too.
This of course follows their announcement today that Google are now supporting real time search in earnest worldwide – here is a video about it and here is a link to real-time ‘Obama’ information:
Also announced today is that Google Trends is now out of Beta and is prime time, try it out today along with the improved Hot Searches feature.