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Searchtastic: Fine but Not Fantastic
One of the reasons I’m fascinated with search on the Web is the flurry of development into new ways and technologies to do search. Even though Google currently dominates search, start-ups continue to emerge convinced they’ve invented a better mousetrap. The same goes for search on Twitter; while Twitter’s in-house search engine does a fine [...]
A Personal Twitter Search Engine
Since joining Twitter, I’ve done nearly 3,500 updates and, in the process, probably shared more than 1,000 links. I’ve also received hundreds of replies, including a lot of links for online services and Web sites. What I can’t seem to find is an easy way to access all these updates and replies because there’s a [...]
Twithority – An Authority on Twitter Search
There are lots of Twitter search engines out there – Scoopler, Twazzup, Twingly, Twitter Search – but no one engine has really captured the market. This means there is a healthy stream of Twitter search engines are battling for attention. Among them is Twithority, which generates Twitter search results based on the authority of the [...]
Bing Launches Twitter Search Engine
Bing, flush with a strong launch in the search market, has come out with a Twitter search engine. First impression: I don’t like it because it’s not solely a Twitter search engine but a combo-search engine that produces results for the Web and Twitter. Rather than Twitter search results being front and centre, they appear [...]
You Say Tomato, I Say Tomato
Last year, when I was looking at starting a blog about Twitter, one of the big challenge was finding the right name and URL. It took me weeks before deciding on Twitterrati. Originally, I wanted Twitterati but it was owned by a U.K. design firm, although it was not a Web site about Twitter. In [...]
Twitter Search – Powered by Google