Tag archive: real-time search

At this week's Search Engine Strategies conference in New York, Microsoft began to lay out enhancements planning for its Bing search engine for the first half of 2010…and they include rolling in more real-time information and most effort to understand the intent of a user's query so the more relevant information is presented immediately. “We have a vision for Bing to serve as a vital assistant to your online… Read More

Yahoo and Twitter have announced a new global deal that has Yahoo tapping into the Twitter “firehose”—a real-time feed of every public tweet created by Twitter users around the world, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. Yahoo plans to integrate Twitter's real-time content and “social experience” across its global Web properties, exposing Twitter—and its tweets!—to the more than 600… Read More

Yahoo may be dotting the i's and crossing the t's on its ten-year search deal with Microsoft, but the company apparently isn't giving up on enhancing its own search capabilities: Reuters and other industry sources are reporting that Yahoo is conducting tests with OneRiot and a handful of other potential partners to add real-time results to its Internet search feature. Real-time searches focus on the so-called “social… Read More