Fire Alarm Companies

It seems that with the introduction of Google +, we may have seen the kick off of the big social networking war of 2011 - tried with the different services, hold back and block data.

First off, over the weekend, some people noticed that Google 's real-time search died suddenly. Had ended on the first people thought it was just a mistake, but it came out later that it was due to the fact that Google 's deal with Twitter, where Twitter provided Google with a real-time firehose of twitter data and has not been renewed. Neither side seems to explain much. Both gave vague statements. First Twitter (weird, that many press sources say the following statement by Google, but it 's not):

Since October 2009, Twitter has provided Google with the tide of public Tweets for incorporation into their real-time search product and other purposes. The agreement has now expired. We will continue to offer this type of access to Microsoft, Yahoo, NTT DoCoMo, Yahoo Japan and dozens of other smaller developers. And we're working with Google in many other ways.

Then Google 's first statement:

Twitter has become a valuable partner for almost two years, and we remain open to exploring other collaborations in the future.

And then another explanation:

Since October 2009 we have an agreement with Twitter to their updates in our search results through a special feed, and that an agreement on second Have expired in July.

Although we do not have access to this particular feed from Twitter, Twitter on information that is publicly available, our crawler is still sought and Google.

Of course, Google had search many other sources in real time ... and they 're all out to erase. Google has proposed that it will relaunch it ... But with Google + as the central piece:

Our vision is that google.com / realtime + Google includes information together with other real-time data from a variety of sources.

In other words, this looks like a bit of a stalemate between two social networks.

And that 's not the only one. Another report from that export Facebook is actively blocking methods you let your Facebook social graph to Google + arrive. This may not be a big deal (to be honest, I don 't want to setup my Facebook Google + export), but it gave me another stalemate.

None of this is a big surprise, but there is another problem, to reach out to all property rights, vital services. You can change things around, block off dates, and limit what people can do. A truly open, distributed solution wouldn 't even be able to cut off someone else, or require special services for data feeds. The real tragedy is that in shutting off access to the data in these two cases, each by losing fewer options and less ability to use the data. Who knows who 's errors in the first (or maybe it' s both parties), but all of these conflicts also call for more attention to Google 's market power. If it comes out that Google is the one who does not back up, and that it was decided, it 's Google plans to use + instead of Twitter, you can see how the "Google is a monopoly!" Will Brigade crazy.

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