Google has formed partnerships with both social networking sites Facebook and MySpace to add to their existing deal with Twitter. According to Google, real-time results will be appearing on the .com and .co.uk sites “over the coming days”.

Basically this means that when a person makes a search on Google, as well as the normal web page results there will be a selection of results from various social media sites.

This reflects the fact that updates on sites such as Twitter and Facebook can often provide more up to date information for cutting-edge stories than is possible from normal websites. In an article in the Telegraph the example of last years protests in Iran was given, where Twitter updates documented up to the minute events as they unfolded, whilst the Wikipedia entry or news articles which Google was returning in its SERPS were somewhat behind.
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