Wednesday, January 21, 2009

Yahoo and Twitter forms TweetNews

I was just surfing the news on my newly installed Windows 7 (which is of course for trail period) when I got to read it about a new search Engine formed by Yahoo and Twitter.

Twitter is a good source to get to know the latest about anything. It’s like a news channel...Getting updated every second from all over the world. People who are little tech savvy know or we can say that they have little idea...How search engine works. I have read it somewhere that Google takes 25 minutes to update a new story...as it works according to its algorithms. Whereas in twitter…you just need to update it...and it’s live... This is instant.

According to the situation and demand of the news by people online, it needs to take on a fast turn. People want news instant... if they search for it online and if it takes time to display it later...Then what’s the use. Twitter can provide you the news update but not the whole story.

When it comes to whole story or news, users tend to search major news websites like Google news. [As a reference, most "hot news stories" take 25 minutes or longer to reach Google's news pages. -Ed]

Yahoo Boss engineer Vik Singh has developed TweetNews. TweetNews combines the search results from Yahoo and compare it with topics which are hitting Twitter. It gives a search engine which provides the result combined with the Twitter.

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