I’ve been messing around with Google Realtime today and it’s definitely pretty interesting. It’s basically a constantly updated list of news updates from sources like Twitter, Facebook, Friendfeed, etc. In the screenshot above, I’m checking out the activity for my brother’s company, 3Par, which is right now in the middle of a bidding war between HP and Dell. I definitely like the timeline above the results as it shows the concentration of when there’s the most amount of chatter and buzz.I think each spike in the timeline is when a new offer to buy the company was made.

As Google starts to refine its listing and figure out what users want to see, you can bet that this feature is going to be more prominently featured within the main search engine. Three things come to mind to what would make this page more interesting:

1. Updates/tweets/feeds that have been shared or retweeted the most.

2. A listing of the top links that were being shared. Apparently that’s exactly what the top links are in the right hand nav. Cool!

3. Being able to filter the graph by Tweets, Facebook Posts, etc.