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As of July 2, Google "Realtime Search" results no longer included updated tweets from Twitter, as a contract between the two Internet giants expired on that day.

These "real time" search results also carried content from a number of other sources, including Facebook fan page updates and Google Buzz posts, but with Twitter driving a large percentage of these results, Google has decided to shut this feature down...for now.

Google has stated that Reak Time will relaunch at some point in the future, complete with new Googe + results.

For those of you using Firefox who still want to see tweets in your Google search results, there is an answer. Check out Greasemonkey, which offers several "add-ons." One of these displays five of the most recent tweets for your search term, above Google's regular search results -