First off: Google bought Jaiku, Twitter's competitor. If anything, they'll be focusing on making Jaiku competitive.<p>Second off: Google indexes some sites every minute. That's pretty close to instantaneous: with the exception of real news obsessives, it's at the very least adequate.<p>Third off: the fact that people write articles like this <i>about</i> Google shows that Google is still relevant. And until somebody creates search that isn't better but <i>revolutionarily</i> better than Google, it will remain that way.