New Google searches for SA

In December 2009, Google introduced a string of new search innovations to bring results to life with a stream of real-time content from across the web. This feature was introduced to Google SA on Friday, 19 March 2010. Latest results and the new search options are also designed for iPhone and Android devices.

Immediately after conducting a search, live updates from people on popular sites like Twitter, MySpace and FriendFeed, as well as headlines from news reports and blog posts published just seconds before will be available. When relevant, these latest results are ranked to show the freshest information on the search results page.

Additionally, by clicking on ‘Latest results' or selecting ‘Latest' from the search options menu, users can get view a full page of live tweets, blogs, news and other web content scrolling on Google's results page. They can also filter results to see only ‘Updates' from micro-blogs like Twitter, FriendFeed, Jaiku and others.

According to Dylan Casey, product manager, Google, the real-time search features are based on more than a dozen new search technologies that enable it to monitor more than a billion documents and process hundreds of millions of real-time changes each day. This is made possible with the support of its partners including Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, FriendFeed, Jaiku and Identi.cah.