The Real time web has recently taken a giant leap forward. Before, if you wanted to find breaking news you had to subscribe to the feeds you thought would bring you that news. Now, Google has introduced real time search right in their search engine.
This allows your search query about earthquakes to bring up the Wikipedia entry first when using the default search, but by switching to “Updates” on the left-hand side bar, it pulls in the most recent tweets, status updates, blog posts, etc on the query. This allows a user to search more intelligently on a query, and provides individuals as well as companies to keep up with what the entire web is talking about at that moment in time.
