July 11, 2011

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Google: Farewell to the RealTime


End of Real Time to ! In 2009, the company has partnered with Twitter to keep a hold on the new field of action that was at the time the microblogging. Until now, the "real time" of posted the Twitter stream corresponding to user queries. But the agreement has expired without renewal on July 2: now, the tab displays a sad "404". All the more surprising that Twitter was not the only stream crawl, the engine also took into account Facebook, MySpace, FriendFeed, Jaiku, Identi.ca, ...

Google erreur 404 RealTime

Why the non-renewal? The Mountain View company clearly wants to emphasize its new " + "and expects to compete with" Like "Facebook indexed primarily by Bing. Challenge therefore, until now, no one can bet on the success of +. In addition, Twitter has not given an exclusive contract with : agreements were also signed with Yahoo!, NTT ... and Microsoft.

The search giant will be tough to get a foothold in this newly competitive RealTime!

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