• LA Times, Thursday, March 25, 2010 2:32 PM

Google has introduced a real-time Twitter feed on its search results pages -- "in effect, lifting a nine-month blackout of the microblogging service in China," writes The Los Angeles Times. The feed appears alongside search results on Google's Hong Kong-based Web site, google.com.hk. Users in China have been redirected there since earlier this week when Google closed its China-based search engine.

According to The LA Times, the tweets don't show up for all searches, "but only for terms that appear to be popular on Twitter." On Thursday, that included such touchy matters are as how to circumvent China's Internet firewall, why Google decided to exit China, and a vaccine scandal unfolding in central China, The LA Times reports. What's more, Google has also apparently added links on its Hong Kong site to the company's original statement explaining why it was leaving China -- translated into Chinese.

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