"Google are upping the stakes in search with a roll out of new ways to slice and dice your search results. The most interesting and useful for me, as a journalist, is the ability to limit the search to the last 24 hours. I can imagine using this frequently. See Google's blog post here.
"We were told that the hardest problems in search were:
- Finding the most recent information - Expressing that you want just one type of result - Assessing which results are best - Knowing what you’re looking for - Expressing your searches in keywords
"By allowing you to search the last 24 hours only, Google is getting to real-time search but is not there yet. The only place at the moment where this is a reality is Twitter. Its search function allows you to find out what people are saying now about the latest film release, earthquake, whatever. This real-time discovery can be incredibly useful."
Carly's Blog is where I post bits and pieces that interest me and occasionally write a line or two. I'm based in London and work in Search Engine Optimisation for one of the big online newspapers.
