Google Realtime Search Vanishes as Twitter Deal Ends
Google Realtime Search Vanishes as Twitter Deal Ends
Posted 07/04/2011 at 1:18pm
| by Ryan Whitwam
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Over the weekend, Google’s experimental Realtime Search page mysteriously vanished, and now we know why. It tuns out that the search giant’s deal with social networking service Twitter expired, leaving Realtime with a real lack of data. Google says the feature will be coming back, but has not said when or in what form.
Back in 2009, Google inked a deal with Twitter to pipe all its data into Google for use in Realtime. While the direct feed has been shut off, Google has stressed that its web crawlers can still index all the public posts on Twitter. It just won’t be so much real time.
Google Realtime Search will apparently come back with a variety of data sources, but it is unclear if Twitter will be one of them. Certainly Google+ will be in the mix, but it will not be the only one. With Twitter’s crazy-short search index, we’d really like to see a new deal with Google.
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Walnut
July 04, 2011 at 5:55pm
I actually really liked Google's Realtime Search. It was nice to be able to turn it on and search for breaking news, and then see what people were saying. Hope it comes back with Twitter integration.
Dartht33bagger
July 04, 2011 at 4:51pm
Does this mean no more Google Instant? I sure hope so, because I hate having to turn off Instant on new machines and I hate having to Google something on someones computer that has it on.
someone87
July 05, 2011 at 7:20am
Not sure why your hating on Google Instant search so much, instead of turning it off, just don't look at the screen, type out your search, then look at the screen. The end result will be *EXACTLY THE SAME*.
Caboose
July 05, 2011 at 9:04am
Some people like to complain about the dumbest things, for the sake of complaining.
yu119995
July 04, 2011 at 2:17pm
I'm curious as to why they wouldn't just tap into the Twitter Streaming API. It's effectively unlimited and offers some rather simple filtering functionality.
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