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Report: Yahoo joins OneRiot for real-time search

Updated 2:40 p.m. PDT with responses from OneRiot and Yahoo.

Not to be outdone by the rest of the search market, Yahoo apparently has a plan for getting in on the real-time search game itself, according to a report.

Techcrunch said Tuesday that Yahoo is planning to partner with OneRiot, which operates a real-time search engine and develops browser add-ons that do pretty much the same thing. The possible deal comes on the heels of separate plans announced by Microsoft and Google last week to integrate Twitter pages into their search results.

Yahoo is shifting its search research and development effort… Read more

OneRiot aims to make money from Twitter search

The real-time search company OneRiot is launching an advertising play for Twitter. The new feature, called RiotWise, lets content companies push links to their stories on the OneRiot search result pages. It's unlike every other online ad play out there in that the advertisements are for content, not commerce.

Say you're doing a OneRiot search for "Paris." Instead of seeing ads for airfares and hotels, as you would on Google, you'll see instead links to "Featured Content" about Paris from content producers -- news sites, blogs, and online magazines.

For the user, these … Read more

OneRiot adds video to its social search engine

On Tuesday, OneRiot, the social search engine that rose from the ashes of social browser extension Medium, is adding video. Users will now be able to search through videos from more than 30 video hosts, and just as it handles Web queries, the engine will put recently "buzzing" videos on top. This means the results of any given search term will change on an almost daily basis depending on what's trending, or as OneRiot calls it "raging."

OneRiot Vice President Tobias Peggs dropped by CNET's San Francisco office Monday to give me a demo … Read more