Google's Social Search- Did it replace Timeline?

Google has recently released its new social search with much fanfare and has justly received much conversation on the web. But (almost?) no one has mentioned anything about the basic disappearance of Timeline.

Timeline was a feature that was in Google labs for at least a year. This past summer Timeline was included in the Show options as seen below:



By clicking on the Timeline link, you were then able to get to the following view:


But now, the Timeline feature is missing:

Now, Timeline is only shown for historical figures, such as Abraham Lincoln, shown at the bottom of the standard search results:




Once you have selected the Timeline option, you can then go ahead and search for something else that is not a historical figure, sort of regaining this great tool.

On Friday October 23 Timeline disappeared from the Show options sections.

On Monday October 26, Social Search was introduced.

So did the new Social Search take the place of Timeline?

Does Google only want to show a certain number of options? Are they concerned that people will not click if they see too much text, much in the same way Google restricts the number of characters in an advertisement?

I'd love to hear your comments and thoughts.

Back when Timeline was part of Google experimental, it could be accessed from the Google Search Bar by typing View:Timeline. I would love it if there was some easy way to recall this powerful tool.