Google expands real time search of Tweets, Buzzes

August 27, 2010 |

The new service, called Google Realtime Search, can be used separately from the company's main search engine to help people find the latest Web conversations on regional and global hot topics.

Google Inc. on Thursday bolstered its attempt to make its Web-search results timelier, using a "real-time" approach to help find content from sites such as Twitter and Facebook.

The service pulls messages posted by users of Twitter and Google's own Twitter-like service, Google Buzz. It also includes messages from certain users of social-networking services such as Facebook Inc. and News Corp.'s MySpace. The posts appear in a continuously updating news feed.

Over the past year, Web-search services have been trying to figure out how to bring the freshest information about certain topics that receive surging attention

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