The ambitious Google Realtime program seems to be stalled with the expiry of agreement between twitter and Google; though the reason of shutting down Google Realtime is still not confirmed. Google Realtime was based upon using social media platforms especially Twitter. The idea was to provide real time social media updates into Google search results including Facebook’s fan pages and Twitter’s tweets. One more reason speculated to be behind the suspension of Realtime may be the launch of Google +. But suspending Realtime for Google+ is not that welcome by the users. They still want the service back.
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July 7, 2011 at 3:42 am | Google News | No comment