An update to our post in late October about OneRiot and Yahoo partnering to build real time search results into Yahoo: OneRiot CEO Kimbal Musk now confirms the relationship. The new search engine will go live tomorrow.
In the email, Musk says that OneRiot results will appear in the main Yahoo search results page for certain queries:
Today, we are pleased to confirm that OneRiot is working with Yahoo to deliver realtime search results to Yahoo users. We have been working with Yahoo for 18 months, initially as the launch partner for the Y!BOSS platform and now as the provider of realtime search results. Yahoo joins a list of 70+ partners who utilize the OneRiot realtime search API (others include Microsoft and Reed Elsevier). During an initial test phase, OneRiot results will appear on the main Yahoo Search Results Pages (SRPs) for certain queries, complementing Yahoo’s usual results. OneRiot has a robust realtime index of the web and orders search results via PulseRank, the company’s proprietary ranking algorithm which reflects the current social buzz around any piece of web content.
Both Microsoft and Google are in the process of launching their own real time search engines via direct data relationships with Twitter and Facebook.
Update: From Yahoo:
Real-time search means different things to different people. For Yahoo!, we think of real-time search in terms of providing the most relevant, fresh information to people every time.
Yahoo! Search is currently testing a new search shortcut that will include real-time results at the top of the search results page. 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 using Yahoo! Search. Yahoo! is focused on creating the most innovative, easy-to-use and valuable search experience for people, and after this test we will carefully evaluate whether we should integrate such results for everyone using Yahoo! Search.
Too bad Yahoo threw towel in search business
its another hype, yahoo will invest in this too just to look cool and then be left with nothing.
I agree with elvirs. There will be buzz around it, then Yahoo will let it die like many other initiatives.
What does this mean:
“initially as the launch partner for the Y!BOSS platform”
Is he talking about the past or the future? Did oneriot use Yahoo Boss, or is yahoo going to add real time search to Yahoo Boss using oneriot as the back end?
OneRiot is a great real-time search engine (gaining lot of traction). I speak as a developer (used OneRiot API to make real-time search engine Facebook friendly). I think TechCrunch had a writeup on how OneRiot has used the API system effectively. Their strategy of “giving” away the search results and also indexing it (not tweet based, but dig through the tweets -> find the external links -> index it like how Google does) is a big differentiating point compared to other search engines.
realtime results are always changing, can be time consuming and garbled. the future of search is fast, pinpoint, location based solutions in a standardized format.
their search engine is not very good, sorry to say
Hasn’t Yahoo learned a thing since they boosted Google by using their search in the early days.
They didn’t even pick the best real time search engine this time around.
Yahoo may end up winning in the new-new search wars
that’s great news for oneriot and the real time web community