Russian Search Engine Yandex announced today a partnership agreement with Twitter In.It will allow its users to search the microblogging site in real-time. Yandex search for Twitter, just like any other Yandex search engine, is word-form sensitive and corrects typos. The system’s users can search by username or by hashtag.
Among the Russian web users Yandex leads Google in search engine usage.
“With more than 250 million tweets a day, Twitter is a valuable information source and the fastest way to find out what’s happening in your world,” said April Underwood, Twitter Director of Business Development.
“We are currently concentrating on social networking search. This partnership with Twitter reinforces our effort in this area,” says Anton Pavlov, Yandex’s Blog Search Manager.
Yandex (NASDAQ: YNDX) is the leading internet company in Russia, operating the country’s most popular search engine and most visited website. Yandex also operates in Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Belarus and Turkey.
Previously Twitter signed this kind of agreement with Google in 2009.But this agreement is not continued.Instead of tweets, Google has started showing Google+ updates in search results page.