Google and Twitter Deal Expires as Realtime Search Shuts Down

Over the weekend, Google and Twitter’s two year agreement which included ‘tweets’ in search results expired. The deal that originated in 2009 stipulated that each would display real-time Twitter results in Google searches never seemed to gain too much notoriety. Google and Twitter aren’t saying much about the end of this working relationship, but Google seems to be concentrating on their recently launched social network product, Google+. As the partnership between Google and Twitter expires, Google has ‘temporarily’ disabled Google.com/realtime. Google plans to explore options in ways to incorporate Google+ into the functionality of google.com/realtime. Twitter has also been hard at work improving their own search engine which was launched June. The new version of Twitter search will deliver more relevant content as well as related photos and images.