Yahoo now showing results from Twitter, Facebook, Google and Linkedin

Yes Yahoo has now been displaying results from Twitter, Facebook, Google and Linkedin. This may not be a universal launch but you can check it on the Yahoo India Search. Yes, for some time now it has been announced that Yahoo will integrate real-time results from the major social networking sites. Namely Twitter and Facebook. Was very surprised to find Yahoo also showing results from Google.

If you do open the Yahoo India Search page. You find on the toolbar on the left four options to help you narrow down your search. They are

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• <img class="nojs" src="http://l.yimg.com/a/i/us/search/favicon/t/twitter.com.png" alt="">Twitter


• <img class="nojs" src="http://l.yimg.com/a/i/us/search/favicon/l/linkedin.com.png" alt="">LinkedIn


• <img class="nojs" src="http://l.yimg.com/a/i/us/search/favicon/g/google.com.png" alt="">Google


• <img class="nojs" src="http://l.yimg.com/a/i/us/search/favicon/f/facebook.com.png" alt="">Facebook

This was copied directly from Yahoo. We wonder how far will search companies go to make sure they are part of the new phenomenon of social networking and real-time search.

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Google increases in US Internet Search

Google's share of the search market in the US rose by 1.4% in November. According to researcher Hitwise. Which brings Google's share to 71.6% overall. Which in turn sees a decline in Bing and Yahoo. Which clearly goes to show that the recent aggressive nature of the search engine from Microsoft "Bing" did not really do any damage to Google.

"In a report released Wednesday, Hitwise has Google on top and Yahoo and Bing in distant second and third places, respectively. Whereas Yahoo commanded a 16.1 percent search share for October, but declined to 15.4 percent in November. Microsoft and Bing had a smaller decline -- 9.6 percent in October to 9.3 percent in November -- but a decline nonetheless. 

Hitwise also went on to say that one word search queries were still the biggest contributing to 24% of over all searches.  Searches of 8 or more words increased by one percent. Which searches with 5 to 8 words in length remained steady. 


It is significant to note that both Google and Microsoft have announces real-time search. Which only goes to prove how important social networking sites like Twitter and Facebook are becoming in their ability to spread news and stories in real-time. Search engines could not ignore this and have started to display updated results from both Twitter and Facebook.

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Real-Time search by Google now live in the UK

Google's real-time search is now live in the UK. www.google.co.uk to test the way results are shown.

It was on Monday that Google announced the new real-time search platform. It is live now and fun to search. When you type a query Google draws from Twitter, Myspace and Facebook to show results. So beside the traditional search results there is the latest news and happenings  from Social Networking sites. So if you search for your fav celebrity; the results will include the latest Tweets and FaceBook statues realted to the celebrity. So you can follow the latest stories and also see what people across the web are saying about it. 

• If you do a search for “Obama,” you can see the latest news articles and tweets, and as you look at the page, more updates are added as they are published.


• Google has already added time filters to its different search options, so you can just see results from the past day or hour. Now it’s adding an option called “latest,” highlighting these real-time results, as well as an “update” view showing each addition to the search results as it’s published.


• These real-time results will be available on Android phones and iPhones as well.

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