Google has suspended its ‘Realtime’ search tools after its two-year deal with Twitter ended this weekend.
Google said that it will now aim to replace Twitter-supplied news with that from its new Google+ social network, as well as, “…realtime data from a variety of sources.”
Speaking to technology blog Search Engine Land, a spokesperson for the search giant said: “Since October of 2009, we have had an agreement with Twitter to include their updates in our search results through a special feed, and that agreement expired on July 2. While we will not have access to this special feed from Twitter, information on Twitter that’s publicly available to our crawlers will still be searchable and discoverable on Google.”
On its Google Realtime Twitter feed, the company said, “We’ve temporarily disabled google.com/realtime. We’re exploring how to incorporate Google+ into this functionality, so stay tuned.”
In addition to tweets, Realtime provided Facebook fan page updates, as well as results from Quora, Gowalla and other sites.
