The much talked Google realtime search release arrived here today, so i was apt to test it.
i created a tweet “How fast is Google real time anyway? http://bit.ly/66Z5Cj” and voila! not 2 minutes later and i was at the head of the Google search results, this is awesome!
so i was wondering, is it possible to takeover the fire hose?
in theory, you can create a tweet-storm, by connecting a few twitter and facebook accounts with retweets and status updates, the realtime fire hose will deliver this directly to Google allowing for an instant astro-turfing of topics.
i created a new account and posted a tweet,this time on the Copenhagen climate convention, and waited, nothing happened,
i then retweeted it from my real twitter account and got the immediate Google take
i played with it just a little bit, but it seems possible to create a trend or take over a topic using such a combination.
leaving the conspiring theme aside, the interface is really cool and useful, only thing is that in a normal search, the “latest results” appears “somewhere in the middle” in a messy kind of way:
all and all, this is a really nice feature.
Tags: Google, realtime search, twitter
Cool stuff, but the posts don’t display properly on my iPad, perhaps you could check that out. Thanks, anyway.