Google Real-Time Search Bookmarklet

ReadWrite Web has discovered a way to make a simple tweak to the URL that Google returns and get back real time results. However, as you can see from the images below, they still have a way to go. For example, a search for NFL surfaced 10 result. Meanwhile Twitter alone is seeing hundreds of tweets per minute, each of which has it's own permalinked page.

So even though it's not ready for prime time, the move is work watching. If you're interested in testing this out here's a bookmarklet you can use for as long as Google keeps this URL schema running. Just create a new bookmark with the following URL, click on it, enter your search and you will get back any results Google has uncovered in the last 10 minutes.

javascript:(function()%7B%20p=prompt('Search%20term:','');%20if(p)%7B%20document.location.href='http://www.google.com/search?as_qdr=n10&q='%20+%20escape(p)%7D%20%7D)();

Comments

[Rex Hammock]

Wouldn't this also work: http://www.google.com/search?as_qdr=n10&q=nfl --> just change "nfl" to the search phrase?

[Steve Rubel]

@Rex, yes, but not as a bookmarklet

[Robert Sanchez]

I think Collecta.com already does this?

[Pete]

Actually its not ReadWriteWeb who discovered this- it is Ran Geva, the CEO of Omgili.com in the company blog post:http://blog.omgili.com/?p=108

[michael lockyear]

One should consider the quality of the results and not just the quantity ...on the twitter screen-shot shown, 2 of the results were junk and only 1 had a link (which one assumes was to a news site), whereas all the Google results shown were potentially useful. Which of the 2 is ready for prime-time is debatable.

[Chris]

Rather than prompting for a new search I use this bookmarklet to limit the currently displayed search to the last 7 days sorted by date.javascript:location=location+"&tbs=qdr:d7,sbd:1"Change the d7 to n20 if you're interested in "real time" searches. Although sorting by date should address most of that.

[Ale]

hi! excuse me ....what is the difference between :bookmarket andlinkhttp://www.google.com/search?as_qdr=n10&q=nfl

[Steve Rubel]

Bookmarklet prompts you for a search. 

[Tom Davis]

How do I make a bookmarklet of this in FireFox??Thanks.

[Ale]

ok!... but as you can add to my bookmarks bar?

[Sally Church]

Very neat. I created 2 bookmarklets, one for 7 days and 1 for 10 mins... saved me a lot of hassle with science searches already. Great stuff, Steve. Thanks for sharing.

[Ale]

ok...:)) simply add to favorites...thank you

[Sabiha Siddiqui]

Very cool indeed. Just one question do we always have to convert the time in minutes or can we use other symbols for days or months etc.?Thanks Steve for sharing this info. Would you like a link from my blog to this post?.Sabiha

[Nick Stamoulis]

I think it will be sometime before Google figures out a productive way to incorporate the real time search results into the mix without destroying the user experience.

[Hans]

I am using http://www.googlerealtime.com/. it works pretty good with reecent news and articles