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"Google Realtime Search is coming back soon, and it will include data from Google+ and other social sources.\nRealtime Search was, until last month, the search giant's method of delivering relevant data from Twitter, Facebook and other social media services in real time. Whenever a major current event made headlines \u2014 such as Osama bin Laden's death \u2014 Google Search would start displaying tweets and Facebook updates from users talking about the recent developments. It made Google's search engine more relevant during major world events.\nIt didn't last, though. 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.\u00A0\n\"The value the product was providing was not enough,\" Google Fellow Amit Singhal said about the decision to turn off the feature during a search panel in Mountain View, California.\nWhen asked about if or when Realtime Search would return, Singhal responded by saying the Google Search team is \"actively working\" on bringing the product back. He added that the team was experimenting with adding data from Google+ and other sources. It seems as if Google doesn't believe it needs Twitter data to deliver a compelling real-time search offering.\nDanny Sullivan, the panel's moderator and Search Engine Land editor in chief, also asked the panel why the Google+ stream doesn't have its own search engine (it's one of the social network's most requested features).\u00A0\n\"We are on it,\" Singhal responded.\u00A0"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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