Yahoo Testing Real-Time Data in Search Results

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on November 4, 2009 - 11:28am.

San Francisco - Yahoo (NASD: YHOO) is experimenting with providing real-time search results from services like Twitter, and has partnered with real-time search providers including OneRiot on the trials, Reuters reported.

Search rivals Google and Microsoft recently announced deals to add real-time data from Twitter and other similar services to their search results.

The Yahoo trial will initially be available only to some 10% of searchers on Yahoo, a source told Reuters.

Yahoo is looking "to discover if showing such content is useful to people," the company said in a statement.

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Published in DMW Daily, November 4, 2009

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Good luck Yahoo! Bringing

Submitted by Greg Martin (not verified) on November 5, 2009 - 8:28am.

Good luck Yahoo! Bringing together search and community should be a goal for any search engine. I like what TipTop http://feeltiptop.com is doing in this social real-time search space.