Google Now Highlights Top Links Cited in Status Updates
Google has made a small tweak to its real-time search tools, which scours Twitter, Friendfeed and public Facebook status updates. Now when you search for any keyword and refine your search results to either "recent" or "updates," the search engine will also extract the most cited links for that particular keyword.
Here is an example (see above images). A status update search for Tiger Woods pulls up recent tweets on the left and "top links" on the right. If you click any "all mentions" link this pulls up related status updates pointing to that particular URL. This can be invoked for any URL with a simple "link:" command and I imagine it would be a snap to create a bookmarklet to execute such a search against any web URL. I have always felt that Google is the company to beat in real-time search and this is another example of how they're going to continually enhancing their feature set. Good stuff.
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Thanks.
To be honest I am not sure if page updates are in there yet.
It's a minor tweak, but anything that enhances usability and the ability to find stuff easily helps out!
PS: Why is friendfeed being scoured for real time data? Do people actually still use it? I mean no disrespect, but too few seem to use it to make a real difference....