Yahoo! binds more Tweets in search results

At the end of 2009, Yahoo! announced Tweet incorporation in SERP only for hot buzz topics. Yahoo collaborates with Twitter to integrate real-time content and complete public tweets. Recent days Y! partnership with Facebook and Twitter support them in expanding their social experience and delivering quality results to the user.

Coming Soon:

• Read personal Tweets across Yahoo networks.
• Update Twitter status from Yahoo!
• Social actions performed in Y! Buzz can be shared across in Twitter.
• Yahoo! media properties like News, Finance, Entertainment, and Sports will include real-time public Twitter updates.

Want to try the update then search for “iPad” or “Obama”. Learn more about this partnership at http://ycorpblog.com/.

New Era of Binghoo against Search Giant Google

Finally Yahoo! and Microsoft received approval for their search agreement, without limitations, from both the U.S. Department of Justice and the European Commission. The deal is signed for 10 years and the new evolution brings enhanced search experience to users, help advertisers to get better results and help improve monetization for partners. However, Microsoft will manage the technology platforms that deliver the algorithmic (powered by Bing) and paid (powered by adCenter) search results.

Yahoo!
Alliance will change the organic search listings and ads will be provided by Microsoft. Yahoo will continue to enhance their latest features like filters to refine search results, search assists, rich results and more applications to explore the relevant results faster.

Microsoft
Search Alliance brings cost-efficient way and time saving effort to your business. The transition will be available to the US users by the end of 2010 prior to holiday season. All global customers and partners are expected to experience the transition by early 2012.

Yahoo! and Microsoft will each represent and provide customer support to different advertiser segments. Track the search alliance updates at www.searchalliance.com.

Overview of latest Yahoo Search Updates

In last six months, Yahoo! search team released multiple updates which bring new search experience in exploring and delivering more relevant results to the users search queries. Started with new Homepage release across multiple markets with lots of additional features. Now Search Scan, Safe Search, and Search Pad are easily accessible in the new page design.

Powerful Search Query Assistance
Yahoo! search assist is refined with more suggestions and help you to discover related queries. Even real-time stock quotes or movie trailers will be comprised in this feature.

Discover Breaking News on Yahoo!
Easy to find real-time content about a breaking news all at one place. Relevant videos, photos, and tweets will be available in the search results page.

Relevant Results for Local Businesses
Searching for local businesses in Yahoo! is made simpler. Explore local business in one click even without specifying location. Refine results by clicking neighborhood or nearby cities displayed in the search results.

Tweets in Search Results
Twitter content is integrated in the Yahoo search results page for hot topics. The age of the tweets might vary.

Multimedia Search
More refined results are delivered in Yahoo videos and image search. These new refiners help you explore your favorite TV shows and movies, celebrities, or the albums and songs from your favorites music artists.

More updates in Yahoo! Local Business Search Results

Earlier Yahoo! displayed map and direction at top of the search result page for Geographical search queries. Today Yahoo! provides additional information and options for local business search results.

Most users search local business information without including location in the search query. From now Yahoo! displays map, address, phone number, ratings and reviews. Also, this aspect is available when you search using business category general queries. Neighborhood cities are listed while searching for major city and relevant results are displayed at one click.

Tweet Updates on Yahoo! Search Results

Yahoo! updates more tweets on search results for most and less popular buzz queries. Relevant tweets are combined in search results along with images, query suggestions, videos and news. Yahoo! trail user search queries regularly and shows relevant results when there is hype in a topic.


Compared to earlier tweet updates, Yahoo! lists tweets for less popular buzz topics at the bottom of the search results. Tweets age varies by hour and minutes to deliver interesting twitter content relevant to the search query.

More on Yahoo! Video Search

Users searching for TV series and Movies on Yahoo! got good news regarding video search results. Yahoo! Fresh updates on videos helps to explore your favorite TV shows and movies based on characters, source sites, video suggestion, duration and more.

People usually try to pursue missing episodes, video clips, trendy videos from various different sources like Hulu.com, YouTube.com, Metacafe.com. Yahoo! video search results drive you to reach the video you were looking for. Also facilitates to discover your favorite shows drilled by season.



More interesting factors while searching for movie celebrities. At the left rail, find list of video clips from popular movies of that celebrity. These features developed to deliver quality results to the users instantly.

Yahoo! Top 10 Search Queries

Following Bing, Yahoo! Released 2009 calendar Year Review with comprehensive information. Some of the popular topics covered are Top 10 popular search queries, Sudden Fame, Bloggers Roll and Market Darlings.

Yahoo! Top 10 search query list is unique from the Bing list excluding king of pop death.

Top Yahoo! Search Queries

1. Michael Jackson
2. The Twilight Saga
3. WWE
4. Megan Fox
5. Britney Spears
6. Naruto
7. American Idol
8. Kim Kardashian
9. NASCAR
10. RuneScape

Overnight some search query trends reach high altitude due to an incident, TV shows, Movie Reviews. The list shows Sudden Fame keywords during 2009,

1. The Gosselins
2. Erin Andrews
3. Susan Boyle
4. Kris Allen & Adam Lambert
5. Nadya Suleman
6. Carrie Prejean
7. Mark Sanford
8. Portuguese Water Dog
9. Falcon Heene
10. Sonia Sotomayor

Yahoo! Concentrates on Search Assists

Yahoo! Displays drop-down box while typing query in the search box known as “Search assist” displaying list of relevant popular terms for the users. More search assist features are available in Yahoo!, Yahoo! News, Yahoo! Sports, and Yahoo! Finance. Making search hunt simpler.

Now real-time information like company stock quotes is displayed in the search assist drop-down box. Type the company name in Yahoo! and get current stock price, company details. Similarly for travel destination, movies, athlete, etc.

Need to navigate to mail while browsing Yahoo! Finance? Just type mail in the search box and find list of links directing to your inbox in the search assist layer. Also, for popular terms like “obama”, “britney spears” assist layer provides links directed towards Yahoo! Image Search and Yahoo! News Search listing news or images of “obama”, “britney spears”.