Without running at least one subsequent test, there's no way of knowing whether you just got lucky and caught it at the right time.
Better yet would be running several subsequent tests at different times of day for at least a week. |
I just tried it, it took about 1 minute. Looks like you got a little lucky. |
Stuff, you are right, this was by far nothing representative. I'd enjoy if others posted their results, too. Not sure which factors all play in here! |
Nothing representative but cool stuff though!
Are you gonna try with other Google’s special partners? |
I once posted on twitter about something and immediately Googled it and it showed up in the Real-Time results section straight away |
Not an experiment on its own but just another piece of anecdotal evidence.
Google seems to index URLs appearing on Twitter (not only the tweets themselves) on a matter of minutes.
After announcing a new blog post on my tweet feed, Googlebot visited that post in a few minutes, and that post appeared as a "common" result (not RT) almost inmediately. |
They should just get Twitter and FriendFeed to publish to a PubSubHubbub for search engines. :) |
It gets indexed because Friendfeed creates permalinks for updates eg http://friendfeed.com/philipp/c00da2cd/this-is-unique-sentence-with-number-321192301 and these get crawled easily as unique URLs. |
Oh sorry – "how FAST" ... I'm a scanner. Didn't catch that :)
pubhubsubbub baby! |
13 seconds isn't too shabby. Most major search engines aren't that fast. :) |
Matt,
Are you saying that Google is faster than those whiz kids mentioned in the article below?
http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/ci_14242473 |
EL,
You are mistaken. The whiz kids are all at Google :-)
My ex-Googler friends with knowledge about their real time feeds tell me this was started by two guys as a 20% project.
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