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Yahoo has integrated Flickr images into Yahoo Image Search via the live photostream feeds that Flickr utilizes. This means that image results returned by Yahoo Image Search happen in realtime.
Rather than indexing Flickr content, Yahoo has leveraged Flickr's existing features to provide not just image results but links to Flickr users photostreams along with the live results.
Although Flickr has been integrated with Yahoo's main search to provide thumbnails for popular landmarks and more, this if the first time Yahoo has done a large scale integration of Flickr images into its search properties.
It also give Yahoo Images an advantage over Google's competing service since, while Google is indexing images from Flickr, Yahoo has live results via the feed. With Flickr users uploading around 1 million files a day, that's a pretty healthy gain for Yahoo Image Search.
Additionally, as Search Engine Journal [points out][2], Flickr users frequently delete images which makes Google's indexing somewhat less reliable than the live photostream search.
Yahoo has also added the ability to search by Flickr User ID in the Yahoo Image Search Box if you're looking to find a specific person's photos.
Also note that the Flickr images now in Yahoo Image results are limited to those marked as "Safe".
[1]: http://images.search.yahoo.com/images "Yahoo Image Search"
[2]: http://www.searchenginejournal.com/flickr-photos-integrated-into-yahoo-image-search/5182/
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