The Yahoo-Twitter partnership would be comprehensive and more encompassing than Twitter’s search partnerships with Google and Bing, but now Yahoo tells us that the integration will focus on three primary areas:

- Access to your Twitter feed on Yahoo: On Yahoo Mail, Sports, the homepage, and other Yahoo properties, you will be able to check the most recent tweets of your friends.

- Ability to update status from Yahoo: Yahoo will become a Twitter client, allowing you to update your status from multiple locations on Yahoo. We’re not sure if this is going to be through widgets or another method.

- Yahoo Search and media integration: Public Twitter updates will be integrated throughout Yahoo Search, News, Finance, and Entertainment, among other properties.

Yahoo will have full access to the Twitter data firehose, so you can expect real-time updates in Yahoo Search, among other integrations. They will use tweets to improve relevancy, freshness, and search results, as well as “drive deeper user engagement.”

The first integration will be available “immediately,” and that is the real-time search integration. This brings Yahoo Search in line with its competitors in terms of real-time data. You can probably expect this to launch fully later tonight or early tomorrow.

As for the other integrations, they will launch later this year.

Name: Kikin

The pioneer of user-centricity, kikin is changing how people find and consume information and defining the phrase: “My Web Always With Me.”

Kikin is a browser plugin for Safari(Mac), Firefox and Internet Explorer(Chrome support is coming soon) that adds some context and rich media to your searching and surfing experience.

Even as different search engines try to cram in more relevant information into the top of search results, getting data from networks and places you trust isn’t consistent. Kikin adds consistency. You can choose what sites you want Kikin to scour for your searches – stuff like iTunes, Amazon, Facebook, Twitter, Hulu,Google Reader, Wikipedia, YouTube, Bing and so on, and then when you search for a topic — like let’s say a band, you get this at the top of your results page:

What we like is that if you connect your Facebook or Twitter account, you can see not only public comments from those services, but just comments from your friends that are related to the topic in question. Context is key, and we like that you can focus that context.

Furthermore, if you go to view a YouTube video or look at an album or movie on Amazon.com, a Kikin bar will appear at the top of the page (you can easily close it), showing you recent searches for that item, feedback from Twitter and Facebook, and other options.

For media searches in particular — stuff like movies, music and TV shows, Kikin offers a nice bit of context and a very easy to navigate menu, that actually is more convenient that going to individual sites or even using some of the search engine specific aggregation services.

You can also easily share content you find on Twitter, Facebook or e-mail, which is a nice touch. Mac users, be aware that if you want to use Kikin in Safari and you run Snow Leopard, you’ll have to run it in 32-bit mode — so our recommendation would just be to use the Firefox plugin as it works the most reliably.

Do you use any search-enhancement plugins to learn more about media items? Let us know!