From an email by Google:

<<Please join us on Monday, December 7th for an inside look at the evolution of Google search. We'll discuss how search has transformed over the years, and will introduce a few new features that we hope will change how people search in the future.

Speakers include Marissa Mayer, VP of Search Products and User Experience; Vic Gundotra, VP of Engineering; and Amit Singhal, Google Fellow. (...)

Schedule:

9:30 am: Registration
10:00 am: Program
11:30 am: Demos & Lunch

  
When:
Monday, December 7th
9:30am – 1:00pm PST
  
Where:
Computer History Museum
1401 N Shoreline Blvd.
Mountain View, CA 94043>>

That's today, lets see what it is. In the meantime, I just got an invitation for a Google Chrome OS event next wednesday in Amsterdam. With a Chrome OS enginaar, demonstrations etc.

Here is the webcast, announced to start at 10:00 California time:
http://investor.shareholder.com/googpr/eventdetail.cfm?eventid=75375

[Thanks Manoj!]

if you want to stream it with vlc

mms://a1775.l3402457774.c34024.g.lm.akamaistream.net/
D/1775/34024/v0001/reflector:57774

[added a break]

Video but no sound :-/

Google Real-Time Search!

http://lh5.ggpht.com/_p1VnGidFqV8/Sx1Pr0kUMNI/AAAAAAAAcLA/RSWSCu8MwCw/s800/search%20realtime.png

Cool, Twitter, Facebook, and MySpace results will be included in Google's Real-Time Search.

Are they rolling it out today, or merely announcing? On demand or by default?

If the latter, I'm not sure what generalized realtime search would accomplish. For a sample of realtime search withing just one, limited-scope, social network, try this:

http://friendfeed.com/search?q=google

(press the "||" pause button to pause)

They're rolling it out over the next couple days. It will be included by default, but it will be almost like a "real-time one box" and if you click it you can go to a full SERP with real-time results popping in...

You can see it live now by clicking here: http://google.com/trends -Then click on one of the "Hot Topic" links.

Here's a real-time search for "google" http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&esrch=RTSearch&gl=us&tbo=p&tbs=rltm:1&q=google&aq=f&oq=&aqi=g10

Google Goggles : available since august!

http://www.google.com/mobile/goggles/#landmark

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hhgfz0zPmH4&feature=player_embedded

Here's a screenshot of real-time search:

http://img189.imageshack.us/img189/3757/googlerealtimesearch.png

Another announcement earlier in the webcast was Google Goggles available in Google Labs today...

Now it's here:

<< Google Goggles lets you search Google using pictures from your camera phones. We take an image as input, and using several image recognition backends (object recognition, OCR, face matching, etc), we return relevant search results. >>

http://www.googlelabs.com

http://google.com/mobile/goggles

Earlier, they also announced a new version of Mobile Voice Search with some neat location based features, and also Google Mobile Maps which looks pretty cool... It lets you long-press anywhere on the map and a list pops up of "nearby places".

http://googlemobile.blogspot.com/2009/12/mobile-search-for-new-era-voice.html

http://google-latlong.blogspot.com/2009/12/find-whats-nearby-and-try-labs-features.html

Here's the official blog post for Google's Real-Time Search:

<< Our real-time search features are based on more than a dozen new search technologies that enable us to monitor more than a billion documents and process hundreds of millions of real-time changes each day. Of course, none of this would be possible without the support of our new partners that we're announcing today: Facebook, MySpace, FriendFeed, Jaiku and Identi.ca — along with Twitter, which we announced a few weeks ago.

The new features will be rolling out in the next few days and will be available globally in English. You can try them out today by visiting Google Trends and clicking on a "hot topic," which in most cases will bring you to a search results page with the new real-time feature. >>

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRkYmx4A9Do

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/12/relevance-meets-real-time-web.html

yeah, everytime they have an investor /conference call, they also launch a new product. Watch the ticker symbol move past the Bar.. A couple of people will make some hugh bucks if they have "put/call" on their stock!

So as an gif animation:
http://www.websonic.nl/nieuws/122009/images/realtime_search_google.gif

Nice gif WebSonic! :)

Extremely cool, in fact ;)

Why in the world is nobody complaining that google is using artificial scrollbars, whereas google itself has sometimes complained that sites should stick with as much basic html as possible (in other words, I find these toolbars disgusting). Still I don't see it for myself here... hmm...