• CNet, Friday, March 6, 2009 11:31 AM

Twitter, the microblogging sensation that the press cannot stop talking about, just put a new toolbar on its home page that displays a search box and access to a list of "trends," or fast-rising terms and topics that users are twittering about.

The news comes just a few days after industry watchers started referring to the messaging service, which delivers searchable, real-time conversations to its users, as a potential threat to search leader Google. According to various sources, the new search feature is not yet available to all Twitter users, although a full-scale rollout is likely.

Twitter's focus on search began with the acquisition of Summarize last year. Summarize is a search tool built using Twitter's developer API, which the company later turned into the Twitter Search feature.

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