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Microblogging earns another big backer

The explosion of microblogging on sites like Twitter -- a site that allows users 140 word posts – has led to a wealth of real-time information.  With celebrities, politicians, reporters, and even businesses all tweeting, these posts are a valid emerging source of breaking news.

Last month, Microsoft and Google both announced that they would be adding Twitter to their search results.  Now Yahoo, whose search engine is driven by Microsoft's Bing, will also jump into the real-time search ring.

Yahoo has reportedly paired with OneRiot, a real-time search provider.  The company will be trialing OneRiot's results with approximately 10 percent of its users.  The trial would provide users with a new "search shortcut" on Yahoo's homepage, which would lead to real-time results on the top of the returned search results.

Describes Yahoo, "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."

Exactly how the relationship between Yahoo and OneRiot will play out remains to be seen.  The pair hasn't signed any long-term deals and the current partnership does not include any revenue sharing, according to sources at The Wall Street Journal.  Complicating the arrangement, according to Yahoo Chief Technology Officer Ari Balogh, Yahoo will also have access to Microsoft's real time data.  A Microsoft-Yahoo-OneRiot partnership does remain a possibility.

OneRiot currently has 3 million users and has raised over $27M USD in venture capital.  The Twitter-search startup is based on Boulder, Colorado.



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How is this useful?
By amanojaku on 11/4/2009 11:39:51 AM , Rating: 2
Aren't people following the tweets they're already interested in? At at 140 characters max what exactly is there to search? This whole micro-blogging phenomenon has me confused.




RE: How is this useful?
By RamarC on 11/4/2009 8:24:22 PM , Rating: 3
i would say "who cares", but millions of twits -- er tweeters -- obviously care. i guess it's the same bunch that 'rent' a ringtone for more than cost of the whole (crappy) song.


RE: How is this useful?
By monstergroup on 11/4/2009 11:52:32 PM , Rating: 2
What is this 'tweet' you all speak of?


Only Jason Mick...
By smackababy on 11/4/2009 1:04:59 PM , Rating: 2
could refer to "tweets" as a valid, credible information.

quote:
...these posts are a valid emerging source of breaking news.




RE: Only Jason Mick...
By SlipDizzy on 11/4/2009 5:33:38 PM , Rating: 2
I need to know when <insert D-list celebrity> had breakfast and sat down on the couch!

THIS IS VITAL INFORMATION!


RE: Only Jason Mick...
By nuarbnellaffej on 11/4/2009 7:33:23 PM , Rating: 2
Actually I track quite a few gaming company's for information on their upcoming games and patches, as for the celebrities... no thank you:p


let them die
By invidious on 11/4/2009 12:16:44 PM , Rating: 2
No offense Mick, but does anyone really care about anything Yahoo does at this point?

There is no need to keep dragging their corpse into the middle of the road so that we all have to swirve around it on our way to go hang out with Google and Microsoft.




By bigboxes on 11/4/2009 6:17:22 PM , Rating: 2
that really doesn't give a crap.




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