Google Real Time Search definitely needs some tweaking. Today, Twitter was going crazy and I received texts saying there was “a bomb in Grand Central”. My first though was “Shit, I just was in Grand Central getting lunch and getting my phone fixed”. After going to NY Times and searching “bomb grand central” in Google, I realized it was a hoax. Twitter users had one bad game of telephone! The Real Time Search was giving updates of “bombs” from Twitter but the organic Google Search showed nothing for a few hours about the mis-communication. This could definitely be confusing, and especially dealing with the word “bomb”, Google needs to make some changes. Don’t get me wrong, Real Time Search is definitely the future of search, but this case today shows some flaws.
