socialmedian: Make Google Real-Time With Twitter Search Add-on

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Make Google Real-Time With Twitter Search Add-on

Source: ReadWriteWeb

Mar 02, 2009

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Some people say that "the real-time web" could be the next generation of post-Google search. Social media tools have greatly increased not just the number of people posting content online but also the speed with which they are able to do so. Do we need a new search paradigm that prioritizes publishing freshness higher than pagerank?

Google backers say that Google is already capable of indexing anything online mere moments after it's been published - but the user experience in search doesn't really feel "real-time" right now. Movable Type consultant Mark Carey came up with a simple solution this weekend that could change your use of Google more than anything else has in a while.

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Carey has written a simple browser add-on that displays the 5 most recent Twitter search results for any search terms at the top of any Google search results page. It's so simple! Why hasn't anyone else done it before now? We don't know, but we installed Carey's script just as soon as we found out about it.