Famous URL shortener Bitly has announced the release of their very own search engine called Realtime.

The new search engine is experimental, Bitly announced on their blog:

“You can expect frequent updates, changes, and entirely new things to appear under this label.

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Yesterday there has been a very confusing development with the Google real-time search results, in fact, it was not available.

As we received news Google has temporarily shut down this service, for how long, we don’t know yet. But as it seems it has a lot to do with the fact that their agreement with Twitter to display their results has expired.

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With the emphasis on social media over the past few years we all started searching for news using mostly social media like Twitter or Facebook. Yes, Google is still number one search engine with no signs that it is going to change, but lately there have been a few changes that may have gone under the radar but should not go any further unnoticed.

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