Yahoo to go real time with search results

Yahoo Labs chief sees real-time search opportunity-: "Yahoo Inc is considering developing new real-time search capabilities, even as it outsources its existing Internet search technology to Microsoft Corp.

Yahoo's Prabhakar Raghavan, head of Yahoo Labs, said that the company could potentially 'mine' messages from Twitter, the popular microblogging service, to offer Web surfers search results beyond those offered by Microsoft's Bing.

Bing is the Microsoft search engine that is to provide Yahoo's standard search results, under the terms of a long-awaited partnership announced this week.

'I've always held that the interesting thing of Tweets is not necessarily searching them but mining them. So we could real-time mine them, then assemble what we mine into the search engine,' said Raghavan in an interview with Reuters on Friday."

The only question , in the backdrop of the Bing Yaoo deal is, would Yahoo invest further is search knowing fully well that the search from yahoo would be outsourced to Microsoft..