• Tech Crunch, Wednesday, April 27, 2011 12:25 PM

In an effort to keep its search results relevant and timely, it looks like Google Realtime Search has added results from Quora, Gowalla, and a number of other services. As a Quora user noted this week, "Google Realtime Search is indexing Quora activity, such as asking Questions, adding Answers, upvoting Answers, and submitting Posts." Thanks to Google's data partnership with Twitter, it has been carrying results from the microblogging leader for some time.

According to TechCrunch, the additional of Quora is great for emergent question-and-answer site. "But it's equally great for the other services now included in the realtime feed Google surfaces -- namely because they also sometimes surface these results on the main Google.com as well," it writes. Other new additions appear to include Gowolla, Plixi, Me2day, and Twitgoo. Along with Twitter, Google Realtime Search has been indexing data from Buzz as well as certain Facebook result for some time.

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