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Google Secretly Testing New Instant Search Interface

GoogleWatchBlog Team — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 11:03:10 +0000

It was found that the desktop version of Google Instant search, there have been some new User Interface based changes. In the new design of the interface, some of the elements, such as keywords, the search suggestions appear below the input box, in a separate list.

But the strange thing is that the interface below the search box only display up to three search suggestions, the first of which is completely the same with the keywords you enter, that you can only see two new keyword search suggestions.

Via GOS

New Feedburner Stats In Realtime

GoogleWatchBlog Team — Sun, 31 Oct 2010 01:24:53 +0000

Google finally announced a significant improvement to FeedBurner by introducing the statistics of feeds in realtime. From now on, we will see the subscriber stats in realtime with the number of clicks, views and downloads which means that we will see our web traffic from readers feeds, Twitter and other sources of subscriptions as it occurs.

Try the new experimental interface here – http://feedburner.google.com/gfb/. The best way to see the operation is to publish a new post and switch to “Last two hours” to begin to see realtime updates.

Eye Tracking shows, Google Real-time Search Results are Rarely Noticed

GoogleWatchBlog Team — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 03:11:29 +0000

According to an eye-tracking study by OneUpWeb, users of the Google search engine ignore the results in real time from Google.

The study consisted of 44 people divided into two groups: those seeking information and those who wanted to buy a product. 73% of the volunteers had never heard of the results in real time. The study aimed to answer three main questions:

The average user of the browser, you recognize and understand the results in real time
Consumers, “use the results in real time
What do the consumers of such results

The results:

Only 25% of consumers used and viewed the results in real time, compared with 47% of those seeking information.
Most participants were indifferent to the results in real time.

From the graph, users only take into account the window of real-time results of Twitter. Maybe better if Google place it higher on the page, but I think the results would be similar. The fact that there is not much importance given to these results could indicate that you the profile is ranked low or Google is aware of the devaluation of the quality of the results due to real-time search results.

{Via SearchEngineLand.}

Google real-time search is already live

GoogleWatchBlog Team — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 05:36:43 +0000

Google real-time search is already live… Yes it is … According to Google, “Relevance meets the real-time web”.

About 2 months ago, we reported that google is going to bring realtime search soon. Now after, 4months Google on late on Friday afternoon, U.S. Western Time, announced that they are now releasing the personalized search, personalized search for all users. Although, this was seen by many as the biggest single change made to the search results, it so seemed that very few noticed anything at all.

The news was hardly highlighted at all. Perhaps because of the date but perhaps also because many of us who spend much of our time trying to analyze what Google is doing already had become used to Google rarely produces the same results for two different users.

A few who thought it was a bit strange that Google did so little fuss on the issue. Little did we know that this was a tiny little change compared with what would be presented today … Google was not only personally, both with regard to your geographic location and search history and choice of sökresutat, but also to its timing. Now, Google now gets updates from various services such as Twitter, Facebook pages, MySpace, Identic, Jaiku … and not to forget in real-time!

On the Google blog, Google says:

Our real-time search enables you to discover breaking news the moment it’s happening, even if it’s not the popular news of the day, and even if you didn’t know about it beforehand. For example, in the screen shot, the big story was about GM’s stabilizing car sales, which shows under “News results.” Nonetheless, thanks to our powerful real-time algorithms, the “Latest results” feature surfaces another important story breaking just seconds before: GM’s CEO stepped down.

If you want to see real-time search, first look, here it is:

Techcrunch compares Google’s realtime search to the speed of light .

“Light can travel around the world in 1/10th of a second, and we won’t rest until the speed of light is the only barrier to getting good search results to you,” Singhal noted. You can find some screenshots, videos and more information on the techcrunch post here.

How to do a realtime Google search?

GoogleWatchBlog Team — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 09:27:40 +0000

With a small change in the address you can get results in real time. To reach this search to be extended, so far not available, the address on “& tbs = QDR: n30″.

The option “n30″ shows all the results with your keyword which were found within the last 30min. If you want to know, for instance the last 10 seconds, you write “s10″.

Here is an example of the search for iGoogle Watch blog in the last 30 minutes:

http://www.google.com/search?q=igooglewatch&tbs=qdr:n30