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Yahoo-Twitter combo rolls out a new news search engine
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California, Jan 19 - For the ones seeking for a right source of latest news, Yahoo BOSS engineer Vik Singh has the answer. He has developed TweetNews – a news update solution that combines the results from Yahoo news and compares it with the topics that are being searched in Twitter – a popular free social messaging service.

TweetNews organizes the Yahoo News based upon the topic that popular among individuals using Twitter. This will result in to building up of a search engine that tracks breaking news using Twitter search results. The service will help individuals using Twitter with more detailed information on a breaking news.

TweetNews will be capable of delivering high ranking stories on Twitter that in originality could potentially not have enough inbound links to properly prioritize them. In the contrary, the service would be operated via individual\'s direct input, similar to Digg, BuzzUp or other services that rely on community feedback, and not algorithms.

During the Mumbai attacks, individuals were stressed while trying to get more details on the latest development, which was not there to be found in regularity. This is actually where the inspiration for TweetNews came from. So now, if you are on Tweets and searching for a specific topic, you would also be delivered with additional links to news articles that top that lists of most topics searched for.

Perhaps this is a new way we are going to relish news in the coming days.

 
 

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