Twingly launches microblog search — Twitter search with a sprinkle of Jaiku and a dash of Identi.ca
Blog search tool Twingly’s new microblog search, as a concept, makes a lot of sense. You enter a keyword in one search box and get results for services like Twitter, Jaiku and Identi.ca. But in practice there’s a problem - and it’s not Twingly’s problem - it’s every service besides Twitter’s problem: Twitter overwhelms the results.
You see, Twitter is much more popular than any of the other services being indexed so if I do a Twingly search for say, "Obama," I have to go eleven pages deep before I get one result that isn’t from Twitter. So that begs the questions: Why not just use Twitter search?
Of course, results will vary based on how popular the search term is that you are entering. For less popular terms, Twingly could certainly be useful. And to some degree it is for things like vanity searches, where I want to find if anyone says my name on any of these services.
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