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Yahoo! deal with Twitter offers more than social search

Yahoo! has partnered with Twitter to integrate the popular microblogging service across the board into various aspects of its product range. This partnership takes a different direction to Google’s deal with Twitter and Microsoft’s incorporation of BingTweets , which saw both companies including real-time tweets in their search results last year. As well as incorporating a real-time Twitter feed into Yahoo! search results, the company’s deal takes things a great deal further, with the Telegraph observing that “Yahoo! has effectively made itself a Twitter client, as Yahoo! users will be able to tweet from multiple locations across Yahoo!’s products.” The search integration went live yesterday, but it has not yet been made clear how Yahoo! will proceed to incorporate tweets into its diverse portfolio of services - including Yahoo! Mail, its homepage and its content verticals such as Yahoo! Finance - but it is believed this may be achieved through widgets

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Yahoo! deal with Twitter offers more than social search

Yahoo! deal with Twitter offers more than social search

Yahoo! has partnered with Twitter to integrate the popular microblogging service across the board into various aspects of its product range. This partnership takes a different direction to Google’s deal with Twitter and Microsoft’s incorporation of BingTweets , which saw both companies including real-time tweets in their search results last year

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Yahoo! deal with Twitter offers more than social search

Google invests £3.6 million in university research projects

Google has announced it is increasing funding for university projects, financing research into areas that can benefit search engine technology. NYTimes.com reports that the Mountain View giant previously offered typical grants of around $50,000 (

Yahoo! and Facebook get a little friendlier

Real-time results are proving to have real currency when it comes to our favourite search engines this year, with Bing and Google battling to show they can be up to the minute, every minute. And with news that Yahoo! and Facebook are getting friendlier, it seems that the veteran search engine is following suit

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Twitter in advanced integration talks with Google and Microsoft

Twitter has achieved widespread popularity in the online world despite its lack of a regular revenue source, but the microblogging site’s financial future may be about to change through new deals. Twitter is reported to be currently in advanced talks with technology giants Microsoft and Google .

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Bloggers must say when they’re paid

The US Federal Trade Commission has decided that bloggers will henceforth be required to disclose clear details of any payments or freebies they are given by companies whose products they review. This could have a massive impact on social media and the way that bloggers reviews are received by the public

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Google’s Fast Flip - an online page turner

Google is advancing ever closer to news provider status with the introduction of Fast Flip, a new feature which aims to make it easier to read newspaper and magazine articles online. Google Fast Flip imitates a physical magazine by presenting users with pages of news content from various publishers that readers can speedily flip through without having to endure page loading times. The New York Times reports that this endeavour will be financed by the placement of ads around the news articles, and the revenue shared with publishers

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Yahoo! Finance leaves Google far behind

Google may be the undisputed leader of the search engine market , but new evidence reveals that it still falls down to competitor Yahoo! when it comes to financial news. The New York Times reports that internet users searching for financial information are 17.5 times more likely to visit Yahoo! Finance than the Google alternative.

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Something went Bing! Could it be Wolfram Alpha?

We’ve highlighted the launch of new search engine Wolfram Alpha over the last few months; up until now however it’s looked like an interesting but ultimately niche distraction from mainstream search.

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We’ve highlighted the launch of new search engine Wolfram Alpha over the last few months; up until now however it’s looked like an interesting but ultimately niche distraction from mainstream search. A model, perhaps, of what search might eventually become

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