Google adds strong point for real-time era with its recent inclusion of “Search Options” in Google web search.This search options let user to search for more recent results in past 24 hours, week, year and even you can drill down the results to an specific date range. Thanks to Ran who first tipped on Near-Real-time search on Google, yes now you can get more recent search results on Google for past minute and even for second. [
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Now lets do an search for [social media] click on “Search Options” and drill dowm your search results to past 24 hours. These results are good but not good enough to be real time. To get search results in near real time, you need to change a parameter in the URL. After clicking on “Search Options”,select "past 24 hours" and just this simple code "tbs=qdr:n" instead of "tbs=qdr:d" to get search results that posted on past minute. To make this more clear search for [social media] and see the difference. You can even search for stories published is past second by changing URL parameter "tbs=qdr:d" to "tbs=qdr:s". You can't expect results here and the good thing is Google can pull search results for past second too.
The URL parameter qdr:d can be still customized for getting results published less than a min ago. For example lets search for same [social media] by replacing the code "tbs=qdr:d" with "tbs=qdr:s40" to see results published is last 40 seconds which is great and nearly real time. You can also further drill down the results by changing the name and value of URL parameter qdr:[name][value]
name : h = hours, n = minutes, s = seconds
value : numbers
Try these intresting search to get atmost realtime search results from Google and share your thoughts on Google's progress towards real-time era. Happy Googling 
Via [omgili] 
