Now that they have outsourced their search to Bing, some yahoo honchos are looking into real-time search by "mining" twitter:
http://www.reuters.com/article/inter...57000F20090801
Given the explosive growth of twam (tweet spam), it's gonna be interesting how they can filter worthwhile info from the noise... Plus, hitching their fortunes to the destiny of Twitter (which might still prove to be the Digital Pet rock of the late 2000s) might be too risky...