Coming to a search engine near you… Google launches their real-time search.

Last week Google signed deals with Twitter, Facebook and MySpace which will allow your status updates to be indexed in their real-time news. The real-time news should be appearing anytime now, so you never know when you could be seeing your Tweet appearing on Google’s first page.

Before you start celebrating your new found fame, you should be aware that this real-time news is updated instantly, so without even refreshing your webpage, you’re likely to be scrolled down within twenty seconds or so.

From now on, when you search a word or phrase, you’ll receive real-time updates from a variety of social media sites, as well as the usual list of search results. You’ll be able to see comments that have been made with regards to what it is you are searching. These could be Tweets, a new Facebook group or MySpace photographs.

The real-time search will appear on first page of Google – a privilege that most companies end up investing a lot of time and money into. The pressure is now on top news providers who will have to update their news content regularly if they want their story to be included in the scrolling news.

This new development comes after searchers began to complain they could not find the latest updates on fast-moving stories.

For example, during the protests in Iran last summer, if you searched Google you would have been delivered the Wikipedia entry for Iran or a recent news article about the clashes at best. However, when you searched Twitter you were shown the latest news from people who were actually on the streets of Tehran at that moment in time.

So now you can see that Google needed to make a partnership with the likes of Twitter and Facebook in order to make their searches more relevant and faster.

For now, you can’t get your news any faster than Google real-time.