Google has revealed its new real-time search feature. Now people will be able to see real-time results coming from newly published blog posts, web pages, Tweets and updates from MySpace and Facebook.

Go to http://google.com/trends & click on any of the topics. Check out the demo video below.

It seems every corporate marketer has started writing their marketing priorities and budgets for 2010. The biggest issue they’ll need to address is whether they challenge old marketing practices and shift more of their marketing budget into digital and social media or do they hold off.

For all those marketers who are planning to hold off for one reason or another, I’d like them to take a look at the Center for Marketing Research at the University of Massachusetts study on social media usage by the top 500 fastest-growing private companies in the US.

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I want to share this little marketing gem. A diamond crusted bit of marketing wisdom from Jack Trout’s latest book ‘Repositioning’ where he says of the current era of marketing change and competition:

If you’re not careful, nothing can kill a company more quickly than change. Like Competition, it continues to accelerate, thanks in great measure to “disruption technologies.

Even the largest companies are not protected from the ravages of change; in fact, the bigger a company is, the harder it will be for that company to survive. Go down and visit the corporate graveyard. You’ll find some once very big companies that are quite dead.