Scrolling FB and Twitter Feed on Google page one

[Rick Buffkin]

Guys, I just stumbled upon this last night and I'm wondering if anyone else has seen this yet. I did a search on google for Mercedes Benz and right there in the middle of the page was a scrolling feed from twitter and it was showing the tweets to be about 8-9 mins old. I thought cool. I refreshed the page and for the life of me I could not get it to duplicate the results last night. I came in this morning and did the same search and then it did it again except this time it had facebook and twitter results in it. It was really cool. I took a screen shot of the page and I'm going to try and put it here on DR. Let me know if you guys have seen this.

 

[joe.pistell]

oh oh... it's on my Mercedes Benz search too. Is this Caffeine? Attach 5 point safety harness... Here we go.

 

[Eric Miltsch]

Rick - here's a good video about Google Real-Time Search Results...

For now, I don't think these indexed tweets are going to help anyone find the content they're searching for until Google adjusts their algorithm to prioritize the authority level of the content & the source of the tweet itself.

 

[Rick Buffkin]

I guess this answers alot of questions about Twitter and FB. I still have the page up on my PC. Once I click on latest results, it refreshes the feed and the old results move down and new ones appear.

 

[Jeff Kershner]

Yup.. Google Real-Time Search Results...

It does come and go.

 

[Rick Buffkin]

Do you guys know of any ways to possibly measure and track this?

 

[Alex Snyder]

I'm pretty sure you have to be logged into Google in order to get some of this. And I'm not sure if you have to link your twitter account in order to get certain things. I have seen, on occasion, twitter results in my Google searches that did not involve my own twitter followings. If you search a hot news topic you'll find most stuff that doesn't have anything to do with your account like "Obama Economic Policy." However, if I do "Toyota Recall" I only see my own twitter friends.