Yahoo Search Wizard Identifies Real Time Search as Hot
August 2, 2009
The ink is not yet dry on the proposed tie up between Microsoft and Yahoo. Yahoo’s top management exited the search business, dumping the costs to a willing and eager Microsoft. Reuters reported that one of Yahoo’s senior wizards sees real time search as an opportunity. “Yahoo Labs Chief Sees Real time Search Opportunity” reported:
Yahoo’s Prabhakar Raghavan, head of Yahoo Labs, said that the company could potentially “mine” messages from Twitter, the popular microblogging service, to offer Web surfers search results beyond those offered by Microsoft’s Bing.
What I find interesting is that real time search is not all that new. What also struck me is that Yahoo seems to be taking a conceptual lead in this search niche. I wonder what Microsoft’s take on this Yahoo notion is? If the deal between Microsoft and Yahoo is approved, will Googlers take the hint and accelerate their efforts in real time search? Interesting.
Stephen Arnold, August 2, 2009
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It’s funny how everyone talks about this Yahoo!-Microsoft deal.
Real time search has been around for quite a while and our site proves that. We got to a point where we can give you really powerful results and with our new feature that is probably coming out in the next few days you will see the real power of a real time search engine.
Monika Lorincz
http://surchur.com