Google Tests Streaming, As-You-Type Search Results

August 25, 2010 | Source: ReadWriteWeb

Google has gone increasingly real-time recently. In February, Google Reader began showing real-time feeds using PubSubHubbub, and then in March, the company began developing a new feature that would allows publishers to push content to the search engine’s index in real time.

Now, Google is testing a feature that searches as you type (similar functionality is already in place in Google Alerts).