Social Browser Extension Yoono Adds OneRiot's Real-Time Search Engine

Yoono, an extension built to enhance both the Firefox and IE browser experience that comes in pretty handy when you go on the Internet mainly to interact socially with your peers and friends, has just released version 6.1 of its add-on, and revamped the interface along with adding a couple of useful features.

I’ve been trying it out for a couple of hours now, and I have to say I’d already miss it if it were gone from my Firefox browser (which, admittedly, I use less and less thanks to Google Chrome). Yoono is essentially a browser sidebar that aggregates and centralizes your online profiles, including from IM tools like Windows Live Messenger, Google Talk and AIM but also a wide variety of social networks such as Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, Flickr, FriendFeed and more.

The latest version of the extension, next to expanding support for Facebook, Twitter, and MySpace as well as the ability to easily share pages, images, or videos from your browser across all networks at once, boasts another useful new feature: real-time search. The search engine is powered by OneRiot, one of many trying their hand in this hot field but effectively one that does what it does very, very well.

Granted, this isn’t exactly a huge innovation (doing a search simply opens up a new browser tab with results from the OneRiot website), but people who already use Yoono will no doubt be pleased with the integration. Try it out and let us know what you think.