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Google Realtime Search Gets Major Upgrades

by Terrence O'Brien on August 26, 2010 at 03:30 PM

Google Realtime Search
In December, Google launched Realtime Search, labeled as "updates" in the search bar on the left-hand side of the Google homepage, for the purpose of adding live results and comments to your searches. Today, Google announced major improvements to its Realtime Search tool -- major enough, in fact, to warrant its own fancy new home page. In addition to plain social search and Google's Replay (which allows you to navigate updates via a timeline), Realtime searches can now be filtered by location. If you're more interested in the context of a specific excerpt, the "full conversation" link will expose all of the updates associated with a post, allowing you to catch up on the conversation. Lastly, "Updates" searches now cover sources, like social networking sites, that are already available to Google Alerts. Now you can get e-mail notices the very moment that certain keywords (like "earthquake," for instance) show up on Twitter, or get all related short-form posts via a daily or weekly digest.

Check out the video after the break to see the new features in action. You can try them out for yourself by performing a Google search, and clicking "updates" in the left-hand navigation bar. Alternatively, just point your browser to www.google.com/realtime.

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