Google seems to be announcing a new feature, product, or solution just about every day now. Today’s helpful way Google is solving your life’s problems you never knew you had is… Google Replay.
It is basically Twitter Search on Google steroids. Replay lets you ‘replay’ a moment in time to see what people were tweeting about for any given topic at any point in time between the inception of Twitter and present day.
In a blog post, Google says this could be used to “explore any topic that people have discussed on Twitter. Want to know how the news broke about health care legislation in Congress, what people were saying about Justice Paul Stevens’ retirement or what people were tweeting during your own marathon run?”
This is possible for Google because they paid Twitter (first time ever) to index their site and get access to the Twitter ‘firehose’ of data. So how do you access this new feature? Google says it will be under the Advanced Search options under ‘Updates’ for now. Once there, you can go to a timeline and view specific points of time. Archived tweets will initially only be starting from February 2010 but will eventually head all the way back to March 21, 2006… the first-ever tweet.
Google already aggregates and displays tweets, facebook updates, MySpace updates, and more for its search results. However, this is the first time one of the big search engines has let you easily search past tweets. It’ll be live for English users within the next few days, but you can already test it here.
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