Search is possibly undergoing a major change right now, with the introduction of real time capabilities. As a result, services like OneRiot are being utilized for their API offerings to supplement other tools including search engines such as Scour.

As a one-stop shop for search engines, Scour combines search results from several major resources in order to give you a well-rounded set of links for your query. With Google, Yahoo and MSN Live (now Bing) already supported, Scour wanted to add some real time flare to its search results. Teaming with OneRiot and using its recently released API was the answer for Scour.

In using OneRiot’s API for real time search, Scour is able to provide real time search along with all the other search result options. For each result, you’ll see the OneRiot search ranking alongside the rankings from Google, Yahoo and Bing. Click on the OneRiot icon and you’ll be redirected to OneRiot’s site, with all the relevant information pertaining to that search query.

OneRiot was among the first socially-driven search engines to take real time search beyond Twitter. In an effort to provide a better glimpse at what the web is offering for realtime content, OneRiot looks at a wide array of blogging and news content in addition to Twitter for real time search results. This has allowed OneRiot to become an appealing tool for other search engines and social media sites to employ in order to power real time search results.

Scour isn’t the first to use OneRiot in this manner. A handful of other companies like Yoono have taken on OneRiot to use its API for similar purposes. And Scour isn’t the only search engine out there to turn to a third party for the provision of real time search. Bing itself has teamed with Twitter and Federated Media to provide real time search content on a search page separate from the main Bing site.

Perhaps an API offering from Microsoft with integrated real time Twitter search results would offer itself up as competition to OneRiot. But it’s really too soon to tell which format and which combination of resources will be of most value when it comes to real time search.

Tagged as: oneriot, real-time search, Scour