Google has started adding real-time results to its internet search engine, channelling feeds from Facebook, MySpace, Twitter and other fresh content into responses to queries.
"We are here today to announce Google real-time search," Google fellow Amit Singhal said at a press event on Monday in California.
"Users will get results on results page as they are being produced out there. This is the first time ever that a search engine has integrated the real-time web into the results page."
Twitter messages and other fresh content streamed into a box on Google's main search page in a demonstration of the new feature, which will be rolled out at all English-language search sites in the coming days.
Google is planning to incorporate real-time search in other languages beginning early next year, according to Singhal.
Online social-networking rivals MySpace and Facebook will also be providing feeds of all public updates.
"MySpace and Facebook users can decide what they want to see offered at Google," said Google vice president of search products and user experience Marissa Mayer.
Google is working on a standard software interface that Facebook and MySpace can use to stream updates to the internet search titan in real time.
Mayer said Twitter feeds were in Google real-time results on Monday, but Facebook and MySpace updates will not be integrated until possibly as late as February of next year.
"I'm super-excited that we are doing this," Twitter co-founder Biz Stone said while leaving the event. "I'm so psyched. It's the future, like Star Trek."
Google will only display updates from Facebook Public pages, "fan pages" used by celebrities, athletes and other high-profile people interested in firing off text messages to large numbers of followers.
MySpace will let all users permit online comments, pictures, video or other content created in profiles to be displayed in Google's real-time results, according to MySpace chief product officer Jason Hirschhorn.
"We look at this as an extension of their self expression," Hirschhorn told AFP.
"We want people to hear their comments and opinions and what better way than to have them next to results on a Google search?"