Google Temporarily Shuts Off Real-time Feeds

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Google Temporarily Shuts Off Real-Time Feeds [washingtonpost.com]

Google Inc. has temporarily shut down a search engine feature that allows users to find real-time updates from Twitter, Facebook, FriendFeed and other social networking sites.

A message posted early Monday on Twitter by the team behind Google Realtime says the search feature has been temporarily disabled while Google explores how to incorporate its recently launched Google+ project into the feature. The tweet tells readers to “stay tuned

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[rustybrick]

Turns out, Google's Twitter deal expired.

[walkman]

That's a self-promotion thing, they could have very easily tested it on the background and then added it.

Anyway, looks like Twitter will be harmed by G+ since most of Twitter users are tech savvy and will try the latest thing.

It remains to be seen if enough people from FB will move for G+ to make sense. Personally I have my doubts, but who knows.

[Sgt_Kickaxe]

I wonder why twitter decided to cut Google off from the data stream but not Bing.

"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," said a Google spokesman in an email to Computerworld. "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."

Twitter, though, doesn't sound as positive about a future collaboration. Confirming that its tweet-sharing agreement with Google is over, Twitter told Computerworld, "We continue to provide this type of access to Microsoft, Yahoo!, NTT Docomo, Yahoo! Japan and dozens of other smaller developers. And, we work with Google in many other ways."

[computerworld.com...]

It remains to be seen if enough people from FB will move for G+ to make sense. Personally I have my doubts, but who knows.

Google has so much data and so many other services that they should, in time, be a better option but what they seem to be lacking of late is respect in the tech industry and of course trust. Some of the things they've done are completely amazing but then they go and do things they shouldn't like harvest emails and personal data without asking. Privacy matters on social sites and G has a rep for pushing the creepy line now.