What is the real value behind the real time search stuff? I never actulally saw anything important, just 100s of people saying the same thing with #bangs. I'm not being ignorant. Englighten me. This is just a question.
I was thinking the same until very recently when I needed to know the tally of that greek austerity vote up to the second. I used Google realtime and it worked wonderfully. It's very annoying that it's gone now.
I've found it very useful for "breaking news" types of things where the news sites haven't quite gotten up to speed with what is happening, or when it's a niche enough event that it wouldn't get news coverage.
