Not wanting to be left completely behind, Yahoo will soon launch their own real time search engine too. But unlike Microsoft and Google, they won’t be partnering with Twitter and Facebook directly for the data (perhaps memories of their ill-fated blog search engine from 2005 linger). Instead, we’ve heard, they’ll work with one of the existing real time search engines. If our source is correct, that partner is OneRiot, and the product will launch very soon.
There isn’t much more to say about this right now. We’ve reached out to both Yahoo and OneRiot for comment and await their reply. The look of the Yahoo search results may look similar to the OneRiot/WebMynd Firefox plugin that adds real time results to the side of normal Google search results – it certainly makes sense to keep the results separated. See image below.
OneRiot has raised $27 million to date in venture capital.
Update: Yahoo’s response: “We can’t comment on rumor or speculation. Real-time search is important and we’re currently conducting several tests designed to discover if showing such content is useful to people using Yahoo! Search. Yahoo! is focused on creating the most innovative, easy-to-use and valuable search experience for people, and after these tests we will carefully evaluate whether we should integrate such results for everyone using Yahoo! Search.”
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Off topic question (sorry to put it here), is Engadget down?
TechCrunch executed malicious code on their server.
You know, this kind of information after the official closing of GeoCities is just another reason I think Yahoo! is no longer sure what to do anymore. They get rid of some great tools and possibly some long-time users with their flippant decisions to close things while opening several other products – some being the same thing. I could forgive their Briefcase closing as there is flickr, but this is just ridiculous. What was once a company leagues ahead is basically a follower today.
Are you kidding? You actually think GeoCities was doing anything but collecting spam and malware for the last 5 years?
Yes, I do at least. I launched my web 2.0 start up on GeoCities.
It was in the SIliconValley neighborhood, right?
how did that work out?
This is lame. Why would Yahoo want to partner with an unknown real-time company. They should build it on their own, after all, there are many APIs available from Twitter and as a matter of fact other startup real-time companies for free. http://bit.ly/13LiHj has APIs open for many different verticals like hot movies, hot TV shows, hot music etc. Yahoo should make use of it while it’s free.
The same could be said about seo.
For the record, I’m not sure who the Danny Sullivan is that commented above, but it’s not me, the one who runs Search Engine Land
For the record, I’m not sure who the two Danny Sullivans are that commented above, but it’s not me, the one who runs this comment.
We’ll see if their execution is any better than their last three or four efforts. If it’s anything like their new home page or revamped email, they’re toast…
How does this effect Y! giving up all its search to MS?
Looking forward to hearing from Yahoo and/or OneRiot regarding how they’ll compete with folks who have more access to the core content than they do. Not an impossible task, but the special sauce better be super tasty
2 points:
1) OneRiot only indexes links on tweets and facebook pages, none of the commentary. So OneRiot doesn’t really let you search for what people are thinking right now (for example, what the buzz was live during TC50). I’m not sure why Yahoo wouldn’t want the non-link commentary from real time search.
2) All these real time search deals seem to be a knee-jerk reaction. I’ve not seen any huge demand for people wanting to search real time (OneRiot seems to only be getting a few hundred thousand hits a month (http://siteanal...om/oneriot.com/) so where is the evidence of the demand for this? Anyone have a source to verify that there is actual demand?
I knew this can be cloned..
$27 Million Dollars???
Are you fucking kidding me? Can you say over funded?
So, let’s say this Yahoo! thing goes swell. Would Carol Bartz pay more than $10MM for this service? No fucking way.
How do I know this? Because I just “fucking” channeled her.
Kevin — I completely agree with you. It seems the only people who care about finding out who said “hotdog” 50 seconds ago are bloggers.
Will someone please explain the value with real-time search? And, cut the bullshit. It’s annoying.
Seriously, if I wanted tweets in my search results, I’d go to search.twitter.com.
If I had to explain to my grandpa that he’d need to install a “Webmynd” plugin, which incorporates OneRiot, which contains real-time tweets, he’d literally shit his pants.
I do not think that Yahoo will make a better job that Bing and Google for the real time search engine.
And what would be the point exactly to bring up a snapshot of Twitter hose during one specific search?
At the end, Yahoo! and Google will ave to choose either to bring ultra-fresh (and less accurate) Twitter results or fairly accurate (but less so fresh) Tweets.
The solution seems to be better tackled with a product like that of Red Panda, a contextual browser that merges traditional and real-time results but IN-CONTEXT (www.rdpnda.com)
Well .. thats grt .. if you is launching its real time search as well.. we all know it would be hard for yahoo to compete with Google .. Yahoo need to get some market share to survive , ..
Best,
Daina
it is good step towards research but can Google faced serious market share fight as it’s service is going better day by day…..
can this will become problem for Google??
BY the time yahoo realizes the importance of real time search and implement it i am sure Google is gonna capture the maximum market . Nothing surprise if it can grab a share of twitter
Nothing is impossible for google….
I think that Rafe Needleman said it well, when he was talking about what Bing does w.r.t. incorporating Twitter results:
“But this story won’t get truly interesting until the real-time feeds, from Twitter and elsewhere, start to infect the mainstream Web search results. When a trending topic or popular shared link on Twitter starts to change the way standard results are ranked, we’ll start to have truly real-time search for all content. Twitter will have an impact across the Web, even for people who never use it.”
( Full article here: http://news.cne...tag=mncol;posts )
That’s exactly what Wowd (www.wowd.com) does. Wowd uses Twitter data as a signal to re-rank web pages. Searching inside Wowd will not deliver Tweets. Such a search will find web pages that are, in part, ranked based on how Tweets mention them.
Maybe the sheer difficulty of pulling data from Twitter’s API directly is too daunting for Yahoo. I think only 400 or 500 twitter apps launched last month.
But seriously. It’s so frustrating for those of us who were around to see what Yahoo was, to see what Yahoo has become. And to think about what Yahoo will probably never be.