oneriot-for-msftYesterday, it was all Bing, the latest search sensation from Microsoft. But besides that Microsoft also announced and released a standalone product which is optimized for the purpose of real time search over the web. Microsoft had made a move in which it has bundled IE8 with search capabilities and web slices from OneRiot.OneRiot is a realtime search engine that indexes the social web – the news, blogs and videos that people are sharing and looking at right now.Besides this, Microsoft has also plans of offering a real-time add-ons package that includes the same OneRiot products.

According to the IE Addons Gallery page:

This special version of Internet Explorer 8 comes loaded with fresh OneRiot goodies, putting the real-time web directly into your browser.

OneRiot’s Tobias Peggs said in an email:

This new bundled browser that Microsoft is pushing is a big new step for us… It’s a vote of confidence in the way we index the web, the results we return, and our ability to scale- all good indicators.

All those who have IE8 already installed on their machines and want to benefit from OneRiot’s components, Microsoft offers three real time add-ons packages. These add ons include:

  • OneRiot’s real time search results
  • Top videos
  • Top shared items of the day

oneriot-for-msft1Users will observe the OneRiot search bar in the top right of the browser. Besides this user will also have the option to opting OneRiot as the default search engine.