In an official blog post Google announced some major updates of its search engine. These are unspectacularly announced as usual, but the place where it happened in the real world, the Computer History Museum, suggests that it is something important.

Realtime search results are now a part of regular Google search results and additionally special features are related to social search in particular and all is available on mobile, too. With the evolving realtime web something had to be expected, but results from the realtime web being part of the regular results pages is a spectacular step.

This is how it works: The Google search engine interface remains the same and conducting a search will lead to the search engine results. In the case that relevant information is available from the realtime web (microblogs, lifestreaming services and the like) these results will appear within the results page. E.g. searching for some breaking news will show links to news sources and if more up to date information is available by the realtime web, these news will appear within the site.

To do so Google announced further partnerships with other realtime web companies following the partnership with Twitter announced some weeks ago. The new partners are Facebook, FriendFeed, Identi.ca, Jaiku and MySpace. The new features will come up within the next days and will be available in english globally.

Below is a video introduction to the new features. Visit the blog post for the whole announcement.

Relevance meets the real-time web

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