Google has brought out a new feature to its search engine. "Now, immediately after conducting a search, you can see live updates from people on popular sites like Twitter and FriendFeed, as well as headlines from news and blog posts published just seconds before. When they are relevant, we'll rank these latest results to show the freshest information right on the search results page".
So if you type in, say, "Barack Obama" or "Tiger Woods", the results will start adding the very latest updates before your startled eyes. However, try as I might, I am unable to replicate this feature when I key in the familiar name "Barnaby Capel-Dunn". Even if I stare at the screen for 30 minutes, "nothing" (as we say in the trade) appears to happen. I daresay the company is concentrating its efforts on the USA for the moment.
Just in case Google gets too big for its boots, I should point out that they've still got some way to go before they catch up with our village, where gossip, rumours and what the French call crimes passionnels, i.e. when a man wakes up and finds himself in bed with someone other than, or in addition to, his wife and kills one or other of them in a fit of exasperation, become common knowledge and enter the public domain about 15 minutes before they actually happen.
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