After announcements from Google and Bing about incorporating Twitter into their search results, Yahoo! is throwing hopping on the real-time results news bandwagon. Yahoo!’s Twitter integration is part of a new update when the News Shortcut is implemented in the search results.

Yahoo! is also recognizing when there’s breaking news and indicating as such on the News Shortcut. Here’s a screenshot of a search for the space shuttle Atlantis shortly after launch earlier this week (per the Yahoo! Search blog):

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