It’s good to see finally Google is catching up with Bing. Now they have introduced Google Real Time Results. When you search at Google for current hot topics, along with regular results, it shows a constant updating box carrying latest updates from twitter, news sites and other relevant places. This box keeps on getting refreshed from time to time.

Also it gives you option to click on Real Time Results. If you click on Real Time Results, you will land to

http://www.google.co.in/search?q=dubai+world&hl=en&rlz=1B3GGGL_enIN324IN325&tbs=rltm:1&tbo=u&ei=P-slS7ihEsuIkAWrxbmnAw&sa=X&oi=realtime_result_group_more_results_link&ct=title&resnum=14&ved=0CEUQ5QUwDQ

Here are couple of observations.
1.    Service is still in beta phase. You do not get the box always. For example I searched for “Boston” couple of times. 50% times I did see the box, remaining times there was no Real Time Results Box.
2.    Unlike Bing Tweet results, G results are filtered. For example they don’t display all the tweets . They display selectively. Either it is random or based upon some algo, I am not sure. In first glance as of now it looks random.
3.    In my humble opinion, now google has turned more into displaying links of other sites. It has more turned into a scrapper site itself, the types that it always frowned upon. Make a search on term Boston and you will see, Youtube results, Map Results, Product Results, Advertisements, Real Results, News Results and on and on. Gone are the days when there was the value of regular search results. Also even regular searches will have Wikipedia mandatory. So going forward google has turned into a collection of links from all different sites.

4. You see the box only in Google US ( I may be wrong. But I don’t see the results in Google India).

Nitin Tripathi

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