Yahoo Inc. is now moving toward the Twitter trend to make people more comfortable and frequent user of its Internet search engine.
The Twitter twist would be its latest sign of Yahoo's resolve to spice up its search results even as it prepares to lean on Microsoft for most of the technology powering its search engine. This new transition is scheduled to begin next year.
Just like the same Microsoft Corp. and Google Inc. had earlier made an announcement plans to incorporate Twitter messages into search results, but as per the information, according to Yahoo it will be the first among them to include such "tweets" on its main search results.
Twitter for Yahoo would highlight the latest news about some specific subjects. When a user enters a search request tied to breaking news, Yahoo will top the results page with four tabs - one for direct links to news sites, one for photos, one for video and one dedicated to twitter.
And then after clicking on a Twitter tab it will show news links posted by Twitter users. Some of the links will be drawn from Twitter accounts set up by the news media, such as CNN and The Associated Press, while others will be pulled from people pointing out a story they find interesting.
Yahoo is dependent upon the free tools to get information from Twitter and isn't being paid any money for access to its posts, according to the information. |