Yahoo teams with OneRiot on real-time search
By siliconindia   |   Thursday, 05 November 2009, 14:58 IST   |    3 Comments
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Yahoo teams with OneRiot on real-time search
San Francisco: Yahoo in its plan to provide up-to-the-minute Internet search results, is running tests with several real-time search partners. Among the companies providing real-time results to Yahoo on a trial basis is OneRiot, whose data will be available initially to about 10 percent of Yahoo's users. According to Reuters, a second source familiar with the matter said that Yahoo was conducting real-time search tests with other companies, as well. Real-time search is emerging as a popular way to find information on the Internet, majorly due to the popularity of microblogging service Twitter, which lets users broadcast 140-character messages. By searching streams of Twitter messages, a web surfer can often get information faster than through some standard Web pages retrieved through traditional Internet searches. Last month, Google and Microsoft announced back-to-back deals to make Twitter messages retrievable by their search engines. Yahoo said in a statement that it is testing a new 'search shortcut' that would include real-time results at the top of search results pages. "The shortcut will only appear on certain queries that will be determined by Yahoo. This is a test designed to discover if showing such content is useful to people," the company said.

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