The recent announcement of a Twitter Google agreement to integrate Twitter’s real time search results and Bing’s Twitter Search beta services as also a deal with Facebook is a definitive pointer to the road search is headed on the web. In fact, Google’s Social Search on the anvil would not just have Twitter as the sole social media element but also all the social networks linked with your Google Profiles.
If you want to get a feel of all the action, head to the Google Lab’s page here. Additionally, get more beef on Google Social Search out here.
There is another tool to make your real time search dream come true, a Greasemonkey script for Firefox that can add the first 5 tweets for your search query above Google’s Search Results. Check out the add-on.
As can be seen, there is an undeniable shift of focus from the information web to the Social Web, a phenomenon that will definitely enhance the user experience.