Yandex, Russia's largest web portal, announced a partnership with Twitter Tuesday, in which all of the microblog's public tweets will be accessible through Yandex's search engine almost instantaneously. The same search results will also be available via twitter.yandex.ru.
Last month, Twitter slammed Google for its decision to integrate Google+ results into search as part of its "Search Plus Your World" update.
"As we’ve seen time and time again, news breaks first on Twitter," the company said in a statement. "We’re concerned that as a result of Google’s changes, finding this information will be much harder for everyone."
The Russian search giant has taken the opposite route with tweets. You can search Yandex for hashtags and usernames, which is of note because Google specifically said it does not index the "@" symbol. Tweets in Russian, Belarusian, Ukranian and Kazakh, as well as top results in other languages, will be available in Yandex's search.
Yandex's Blog Search Manager Anton Pavlov says the company is heavily focused on social search.
"People share news, exchange opinions and discuss all sorts of matters in real time all the time. This kind of information will help us enhance our search results," Pavlov says.
Yandex, Russia's most-popular website and search engine, also operates in the Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Belaurus and Turkey.
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