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In my opinion, RT (Real Time and not ReTweet) has become slightly over rated. Real Time is only good for me when it comes to news and not information about something specific I am looking for. Why would I want to search "Real Time" for someone who just released a new PDF file that provides tips about SEO. First, how ill I know that it is actually Real Time. It might have been an eBook released some three years ago and someone decided it was a good time to Tweet it.

I know that people will say, ask for it on Twitter and you will get an answer. From whom? How many people are actually going to answer. It seems to me that people are interested more on Twitter to SPAM and promote their business than anything else. Don't get me wrong, I like Twitter, but search is search and Real Time is, well I am not so sure how one would define it.

I hope Google does not change it's search results but rather provide it in a separate "tab" it you prefer, just like you mentioned (somewhere in the show more options". If Real Time does in fact change the search results forever, what do you think will happen with the SEO industry?

"The most recent stuff" hasn't met the test of time. While there is value in picking up on recently updated information, there is a whole lot of buried treasure out there on the web too. This last weekend, I found a piece of information I needed from some forum posts dated 2002.

Google real time search??? cant wait to see it.

More Twitter hype... yawn
Let's see what the "news" is in 2010

If Twitter is already there providing real time search why go for another service?isnt it possible to keep realtime updates of twitter in google by some means.I heard about google and the twitter acquisition.is that true ?

Regarding this statement...

"Google has come to the realization that real-time search may eventually become more important than its current search index"

I can't believe that real-time search is going to be THAT important. How often do you need to search what's happening on the web from a second ago, rather than a few weeks ago?

Granted, sometimes it's necessary when you want to find out up-to-date content about an emerging issue or something, but other than that I see no real benefit. It sounds fraught with issues and nightmares to overcome to establish that kind of technology.

Yes, "real time" searching is a logical consequence in the evolution of the internet (Even is this what google means is not real time - it is near real time).

But not only from the view of a internet service or content provider this google feature would be rising problems and (shure, this is the main target of google) leads to a further as stronger monopoly within the internet - on the cost of all internet users.

Just imagine that there would be 5 or 20 other search engine robots which are fetching your pages everytime they "expect" a change of it - this would generate a huge overhead in networking and computing ressources in YOUR network. What would be happen if there are several hundreds or thousands of robots which want to do the same? Even in atime bandwitdh costs "like nothing" (what's not true) and computer would be cheaper each day - this is inefficient and would be evolute more and more against the main interests of any free internet user on the planet - even if this seems not clearfor the most today .

Because google and other commercial SEs are using their own robot without any open sharing of content there is no way to make this efficient as it could be done on a open search and indexing system.

I believe the best solution to present actual content to each search engine could be reached by a open robot and robot data interchange standard (i.e. as rfc and a free reference implementation).

I.e. Hosting ISPs then are able to crawl and collect content within their network (means - as usual within the internet - with a own standardized open source based robot software) much more efficient into a "content essence". Even or especially actual content could be updated into the search network upstream much more efficient then any (external) crawler can do that alone. The relevant parts of the "content essence" could be fetched by regarding search engines or streamed to them (at this point possible "stream relays" could make this process more bandwidth efficient) - additionally a search frontend system can "subscribe" for relevant changes and get essence updates pushed in case of page changes (like a trap). For efficiency this protocol could be run on UDP (like the DNS does it).

From my viewpoint even such kind of crawled content should be open accessible and licensed for everyone who want's to run his own search and catalog frontend system - this allows the developement of many different search systems which are able to focus in any direction. Google allows just one or a very few kind of "searching" the web and you, as a user, has to be lucky with that what google spies out in his results.

Cheers,

Niels
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nd@syndicat.com
http://www.syndicat.com

The real-time search is really important!

Agree, we need real time seach results.

Love the idea, heck each time someone ad's a new product it can be found that day via search?

Bring it on!!!

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I think real time search is great, but monetizing it is difficult. Can ads be accurately associated with a search in real time? How do you let an advertiser bid on real time ads? It is an appealing possibility, but I think Google has chased enough rabbits that can't be monetized well. Someone in Mountain View has to be crunching the numbers and making sure that there is some ROI to make this all work.

I can see Google adopting real time search results. It will be interesting to see when it happens and how this will impact SEO and the search marketing industry.

Yes, competition is good, as Twitter is impacting search in ways that Google never imagined. Now, if Google is being impacted, imagine what is going on over at Yahoo, MSN and the other secondary search engines?

Yes, real time search was one of these things you didn't know you needed until someone invented it!

Digg, Google, Facebook are all trying to capture the "real time" info that twitter has pioneered. Marketers are/trying to figure out how to monetize on this info, in every industry. Home improvement to attorneys.