Real-time search may be the biggest digital issue of our time, says Google’s CEO.  Eric Schmidt says in an interview that:

• “Real time information is just as valuable as all the other information, we want it included in our search results.”
• There are many companies beyond Twitter and Facebook doing real time.
• “We can index real-time info now – but how do we rank it?”
• It’s because of this fundamental shift towards user-generated information that people will listen more to other people than to traditional sources. Learning how to rank that “is the great challenge of the age.” Schmidt believes Google can solve that problem.

Via Liberal Education, 02/11/2009

The way i see it, this is the problem, why everyone wants everything in "real-time" when there`s no time even to spend with our friends and family?