Real time results become more and more pertinent, and Google is implementing ways to keep up.
Google recently announced the launch of real-time results on Google.com, and are now announcing that the Google Search Appliance (GSA) can show users tweets from Twitter next to internal Search Appliance results.
According to the Google blog:
Google’s focus is to provide the most relevant search results to users. In the case of the GSA, this means accessing information from multiple sources, aka universal search. To this end, we already offer a feature called Related Web Results, which allows employees to view results from Google.com alongside corporate search results.
Customers have told us that placing web results next to intranet ones often allows employees to think differently about a particular topic and approach it in new ways. By integrating enterprise search with more of the information that exists in the cloud, like tweets, employees can more easily leverage the wisdom of the crowd.
Using this tool is simple. Google instructs that to turn the Twitter box on in GSA results should take no more than 15 minutes to get up and running, can be enabled for only some users, all users, or set up so users can choose themselves whether they want to see the Twitter results by using a keyword trigger (like ‘twitter’).
The installation instructions and code for the app are here.