Comments on: Google Will Begin Adding Real-time Search Results in the Next Few Days http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2009/12/08/google-will-begin-adding-real-time-search-results-in-the-next-few-days/ What's Hot & What's Cooking in Scholarly Publishing - from the Society for Scholarly Publishing Wed, 15 Feb 2012 17:25:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: David Crotty http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2009/12/08/google-will-begin-adding-real-time-search-results-in-the-next-few-days/#comment-5949 Tue, 08 Dec 2009 14:54:44 +0000 http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/?p=7284#comment-5949 This is going to further the tensions between speakers at meetings who are willing to present unpublished data and those intent on the instant dissemination of any information they come across. For what it’s worth, I’m currently at the American Society for Cell Biology meeting, and scattered throughout the conference center are signs (and slides between talks) that read the following:

“Twittering and other forms of communication involving replication of data are strictly prohibited at all sessions, in the Exhibit Hall and in the Poster Sessions.”

Or alternately:

“Sharing images and/or text of data is prohibited. Respect the willingness of presenters to share their data at the meeting and protect their publication opportunities”

]]> By: Mark Lord http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2009/12/08/google-will-begin-adding-real-time-search-results-in-the-next-few-days/#comment-5948 Tue, 08 Dec 2009 14:22:06 +0000 http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/?p=7284#comment-5948 Does that mean that currency of content will matter more than relevancy? Is Google effectively changing the way they calculate PageRank, or are these search results going to be separated in some way? From the video it seems that this will be a separate feed – will users be able to turn it off – it might be the case that some people don’t want to read fan-babble first?

I can see this change actually driving some Google users to look for more serious sources of information – the real time results might actually get in the way.

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