Google has shut down its Realtime Search offering after its agreement to include Twitter results expired.

The search giant appears to be planning to incorporate results from its own newly launched Google+ service instead of Twitter posts.

Google started including information like status updates and other public content from sites including Twitter and Facebook in search results in 2009. Initially, the results were incorporated into the main search site where users could navigate through the filtering options on the left-hand column to see the Realtime results.

But last year Google launched a standalone page, google.com/realtime, where users could specifically search for such results.

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