Real Time Search

Facebook is imitating Twitter.coms feature of real-time search. And now it seems that Google may be forced to start something similar. Larry Page, a Google executive, recently confirmed this at a Google conference in the UK. When we asked his opinion on Twitter, Larry responded: “I now think we need to index the web every second to allow real-time search. At first, my team did not believe me. However, now they know they have to do it, because of Twitter. People are pretty excited about real-time”. Larry Page added: “People really prefer real time search and I think Twitter has done a great job about it while we have done a relatively poor job of creating real time search”. So, it sounds as if the search engine is going to make fresh results available. Google now thinks that real-time search may become more important than its own current index. When a disaster happens, it’s Twitter coming up with real-time information. It’s Twitter that is the relevant search engine for sensational real time events. Not Google or even Google News ! And Google finally admits this. Twitter is giving people real-time information thus blowing away Google’s search results, which are always at least several hours old. But we don’t think Google will die. They will either buy Twitter or Google may start its own real-time search.