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Yahoo Looking to OneRiot to Offer Real-Time Search

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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 Web”—services like Facebook, Twitter, Plurk, Digg, YouTube, and blogs—to provide a picture of what Internet users (and various online communities) are buzzing about at any given moment. Real-time searches have proven to be more valuable than conventional search engines when tracking events in real-time, whether breaking news in a particular area (like an earthquake, political protests, or major public events) as well as site- and place-specific events like concerts, sporting events, and even traffic.

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Last month, both Microsoft and Google announced enhancements to their search technology that would make Twitter posts available to their search engines.

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