Topsy Labs, the leading real-time search and analytics provider, today announced that Yandex, the largest search engine in Russia, has licensed access to Topsy’s real-time relevance-ranked social media index to enable the integration of social search within Yandex’s search results.
Topsy CTO & Co-founder, Vipul Ved Prakash says “We are very excited to partner with Yandex. Our technology platform is designed specifically to ingest and rank real-time social data at massive web scale. It’s a perfect complement to Yandex’s already powerful search capabilities.”.
“Now, Yandex users can see most popular links and videos from Twitter, the largest microblogging service, among the most recent web documents in Yandex’s search results. Yandex users can also view more Twitter results relevant to their search query. Yandex’s Twitter search technology is powered by Topsy Labs” Yandex says.
Topsy Labs is a realtime search and analytics platform powered by the social web.
Yandex is the leading internet company in Russia, operating the country’s most popular search engine and most visited website.
Yandex recently announced a partnership with Twitter that provides Yandex with access to the full Twitter firehose of more than 250 million tweets per day.
