To me, while this is an interesting way of searching Twitter (in fact, I called it what Twtiter search should be), it gets even more interesting if you consider that Google is developing a system for sites to push content to Google in real-time, via PubSubHubbub (or PuSH). Google’s Matt Cutts spoke with WebProNews about potential PuSH integration recently (read about it more here):

Will Google make it an option to browse entire archives of sites in a similar fashion to what it is doing with Twitter? This could be a quite useful feature, and it would certainly fall along the lines of "organizing the world’s information." Let’s say I remember reading a New York Times article several months back that I’d like to reference in one of my own articles, but I can’t remember what it was called exactly, and I have a hard time finding it through a traditional web search. Being able to drill down into the archives in this way could make the search process much more helpful – a better user experience.

Of course most content sites have their own search features (sometimes even provided by Google), and you could try using that, but quite frankly these site search features aren’t always that great. In fact, they’re very often terrible. Google knows search, and it is still the most dominant search destination. It would make a ton of sense for such an option to be available.

I reached out to Google to see if this was a potential option. "The scenario described is indeed possible but we don’t have anything to announce today," a Google spokesperson tells me. To be clear, when he says "possible," he’s referring to the technology making such a scenario possible. As he said, there’s no announcement, and this may not even be on Google’s list of things to do. But, you never know. 

Google Labs already has a timeline feature for news.

Would you like to see Google offer timeline-like archives of site updates? Tell us what you think.

Two years ago (almost to the day), Google launched its archive search for Google News, which lets users look at older news stories, but until now, this has been limited to online publications. Now Google is incorporating actual newspaper articles into the Google News archives, so you can view papers from long before Google or even the Internet ever existed.

From the sound of it, it’s going to be like having the world’s largest library microfiche at the click of a mouse. It will be very interesting to see what kind of a range of publications Google will be able to gain access to. Think about all of the small towns out there with their own newspapers. I can’t even begin to imagine how many there must be. A post on the Official Google Blog says that one of the company’s partners is the Quebec Chronicle-Telegraph, which is North America’s oldest newspaper, dating back over 244 years. The post discusses a number of American references, and it is unclear if this is going to be a global project, but I would assume that it will be eventually at least.

You might remember when Google introduced Google Book Search. It was also a pretty neat idea, but some publishers had problems with Google copying books and making them readily available online (they have even come quite a ways with that too though):

Hopefully most publications will cooperate with Google on this project, because it really could be an invaluable resource for research of all kinds.The newspaper articles will be searchable just like the existing Google News archives. We will just presumably be seeing more and more of the new results as Google gets deeper into the indexing. The newspaper archive is going to be one huge project for Google to conquer, but I’m sure they didn’t think organizing the world’s information was going to be a small or easy task.