Whether you think to use them or not, you probably remember that Google launched its "search options" a while back. Within these options is an option to search by timeframe. One blogger haspoints out that if you change the "qdr:d" to "qdr:n" to get results from the past minute. Or you can change it to "qdr:s" and get results from the past second (if there happen to be any that fresh). Geva also points out a few other substitutions: Presumably you can plug in different numbers for different time specifications.
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Does Google need real-time search?
- qdr.h - Past hour
- qdr.n10 - Past ten minutes
- qdr.s30 - Past 30 seconds
This is close to real-time search, but not exactly "real" time. Alex Chitu from the Google Operating System blog
What Geva's finding seems to indicate is that Google is pretty close to actually offering real-time search as an option. They are not including this as a clickable option at this point, but it would not be surprising to see more closer-to-real-time options in Google's Search Options in the near future. Google has after all, acknowledged that they need to get involved with real-time search.
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