Google Realtime Angelenos

Posted by Zeeshan on August 27, 2010

The new home page you will find some great tools to help you improve and understand the results. First, you can use geographical refinement to find updates and news about you, or in a specific region. So if you’re traveling to Los Angeles this summer, you can check out tweets from the Lakers to get ideas for activities that take place right where you are.

In addition, we added a view for the talks, which is easy to follow a conversation in real time web. Often a single tweet sparking a larger conversation re-tweets and other responses, but to ride have to click through lots of links and figure yourself. With the new “complete conversation” feature, you can browse the entire conversation with a glance. We organize tweets from the oldest to the newest and bullet so you see how the conversation developed.

Updates Finally, we also added content to Google Alerts, which is easy to stay informed about a topic of their choice. Now you can create a specific alert for “updates” to get an e-mail when the item appears on Twitter and other short form. Or, if you want to manage the volume of email, can configure email alerts once a day or week.In a move that underscores the growing importance of real-time search, Google has just given the time search function a real kick in the pants, moving of the poor “Updates” in the sidebar of the regular Google search for your own URL which broke this morning, but now seems to redirect to