What happened to google?

What happened to Google Realtime Search on July 3, 2011?

• HTTP 404 returned from http://www.google.com/realtime since this morning. Does Google+ cause twitter to ban google realtime？

• Answer:

  Google Realtime Search was temporarily shut down because Google's contract with , which allowed them access to the , expired on July 2, 2011. Google sent the following statement to : 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. 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. http://searchengineland.com/as-deal-with-twitter-expires-google-realtime-search-goes-offline-84175 Google is "exploring how to incorporate " into Google Realtime, according to a tweet from their official Twitter account: http://twitter.com/googlerealtime/status/87767676851732481 http://huffingtonpost.com/2011/07/04/google-realtime-search-google-plus-twitter_n_889667.html