Google Realtime Search Strikes Out On Its Own

Realtime search has been a part of your Google experience for a while. While it added some flair and more information to your results, Google has decided it can do more. To do this, they have given realtime search its own home and added a few new features and tools to make it more useful.

When we first introduced our real-time search features last December, we focused on bringing relevance to the freshest information on the web. Our goal was to provide real-time content from a comprehensive set of sources, integrated right into your usual search results. Today we’re making our most significant enhancements to date, giving real-time information its own home and more powerful tools to help you find what you need.

You can now find Google Realtime Search at http://www.google.com/realtime but, if it hasn’t rolled out to you yet, just use this link to play with it. You can also access realtime results by choosing the Updates option in your Google sidebar.

Realtime Search updates right before your eyes as new results come in. It pulls updates from services like Twitter, FriendFeed, Facebook, and Buzz. Depending on what topic you search for, things could get a little hectic, so you can filter things in a couple of ways: