I am an avid user of Google Real-time search or should I say was. For the past couple of days, I tried to use real-time to check if Hootsuite was having problems and I found the option gone. Google has gotten a recent update, maybe to integrate Google+, so I assumed the feature was lost in the update. But according to “Google shuts down Realtime Search as Twitter deal expires” by Laurie Segall of CNNMoney.com, the real-time option has been eliminated from Google.
Google and Twitter’s contract to having the real-time option has expired on the 2nd ending the two-year deal. The statement from Google about the expiration:
“Twitter has been a valuable partner for nearly two years, and we remain open to exploring other collaborations in the future”
“We’ve temporarily disabled google.com/realtime. We’re exploring how to incorporate our recently launched Google+ project into this functionality going forward”
Twitter:
“We work with Google in many other ways”
CNNMoney is reporting that Google+ might be the reason behind the contract expiration; the new social media is supposed to have its own real-time option. As Google put it,
“Out vision is to have google.com/realtime include Google+ information along with other realtime data from a variety of sources”
Hopefully, some sort of real-time twitter related search will be at Google. I tend to use real-time search to find out news or problems (of course, by first checking the actually news first) such as tech problems, phone app outages, traffic accidents, etc. If the feature is going to be available via Google+, it’s probably time for me to make a Google+ profile.
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