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Twitter finally putting search front and center

Source: VentureBeat

Feb 18, 2009

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From the day I signed up about two years ago, I’ve always seen the potential of Twitter. It’s a potential that the company almost let go to waste last year with its inability to stay up and work correctly. But it rebounded, and now it’s finally living up to that potential. But during that time something else has become clear: there’s an offshoot of Twitter that arguably has more potential than Twitter itself: Twitter Search.

Twitter clearly saw this potential too when it decided to purchase the Twitter search engine Summize last year. That service, now simply called Twitter Search, is able to scan tweets from millions of users instantaneously to paint a real-time picture of events and trends unfolding. But Twitter had oddly relegated Twitter Search to a second-hand product up until now. If you don’t know about it, the only way to currently find it on the site is a link buried in a list of links in the site’s footer. But that’s about to change.

Twitter is testing putting search front and center, Twitter co-founder Biz Stone writes today on the company blog. A se

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