Google is aiming to resurrect its Realtime search feature, a month after its contract with Twitter ended. Realtime Search used relevant data from Twitter, Facebook and other social media services to deliver search results in real time. Google took Realtime Search down in July after it failed to come to an agreement with Twitter for […]
Google is aiming to resurrect its Realtime search feature, a month after its contract with Twitter ended. Realtime Search used relevant data from Twitter, Facebook and other social media services to deliver search results in real time.
Google took Realtime Search down in July after it failed to come to an agreement with Twitter for continued access to Twitter‘s firehouse of data. Without a constant stream of tweets, the product was far less useful.
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However, according to a report in technology blog Mashable, Google is “actively working” on bringing Realtime back, only with Google+ as the main source of data.
Mashable reports that Google’s Amit Singhal didn’t say they wouldn’t be courting Twitter, but it doesn’t sound like it’s a high priority.
Singhal added that the team was experimenting with adding data from Google+ and other sources.
