Way back when I was doing news aggregation, I would have killed for real time search capabilities. Now that Google has launched real time search, I'm tempted to delve back into that wild world. Well, maybe not, but the real time search is pretty nifty, in my opinion.
Take, for example, a Google search for Nathan Fillion. Your standard search shows you the expected results, such as imdb page, wikipedia page, image results, all that good stuff. Now click on Show options above the results, and then click on Latest when the sidebar opens, and bam, a whole wide world of wonderful.
What's that? Latest doesn't show up for you? There's an easy fix for that. Up in the address bar, scroll all the way to the end of the address (the right end, not the left) and add &esrch=RTSearch to the end. Hit enter, and "Latest" should show up in the sidebar. Click on it, and there you go.
At the time of this writing, the oldest item listed on that page is 44 minutes old, and several twitter posts occurring within the last minute. The Twitter part may not be so useful, but it's kinda cool, especially if you're not logged into Twitter at the moment and are curious what people are saying.
Personally, I like it. Now... I wonder if I can access real time search through the Google API and craft my own custom pages to play around with. I also wonder if the real time search works with images because seriously, who wouldn't love a continuously updating stream of midget porn right there in your browser :)
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