With the ever increasing awareness and use of Social Media, Google now intends to deliver the most up-to-the-minute search results with its “real-time” service. Marissa Mayer, Google’s vice president of search products and user experience says “I would say that real-time search is the natural evolution of universal search.”

A few people have asked me about Twitter recently and what it’s all about.  I’m certainly not an expert and I wouldn’t profess to be able to teach about it but I do use Twitter daily and think I’ve got the hang of using it in an ‘ok’ way.  I guess it can seem quite daunting if you’re from the outside looking in.  In fact a few of my friends have said just that and not got past setting up their user name.  I’m not going to try to explain how to use it, just my view of what it’s all about. For great advice on setting up an account on Twitter and using it to your best advantage etc please see Keith Bohanna’s blog.