“Google’s realtime search: fun times for neurotic searchers”
Jacqui Cheng, Ars Technica
08/27/10
<http://arstechnica.com/web/news/2010/08/googles-realtime-search-goes-a-step-beyond-twitter.ars>
In our expanding technologically dependent society, some people cannot stand to be the last to learn about well, anything. Whether it is local weather, world-wide natural disasters, new high-tech gadget launches, a new restaurant opening in your neighborhood or whatever else under the sun that is happening now, people want to be able to find out what everyone is saying about that event now. Needless to say most people look for this information by searching the internet. Google has taken a step in the right direction for these “neurotic searchers” by inventing Google realtime. Right now it is still in the develompent stages but soon users will be able to go to google.com/realtime to search what is being posted online that second, in real time. The search will also allow users to narrow their results by region or geography. In other words, not only will users be able to see what people have just, that second, posted online, the topics and posts returned in the search will be specific to where the indicated location is.
I think this is a great step for Google in helping internet users break down the neverending amounts of information that is returned from a typical Google search. Google realtime will make surfing the web for local news and happenings much more pleasurable not to mention easy for users. I am glad that Google has taken the initiative to sift even further through information on the internet for people. Realtime will not only make attaining information much easier, it will also help make the search results more relative to what the user is actually looking for. Even though it is still in the experimental stages, I believe that once Google launches realtime it will become as much a technilogical asset as Google itself has been in the lives of many avid internet users.
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