A new Twitter search engine from OneRiot focuses on the content people link to rather than the things they write, according to Matt McGee. He explains that the engine indexes tweets, looking for
messages with embedded links, then crawls and indexes the linked content, displaying the search results in the familiar Title-Snippet-URL format.
The engine includes social community
tools, too. "Each result includes a reference to how recently the URL was shared on Twitter, how many tweets mention it, and who first found it on Twitter," McGee writes. "Clicking on the 'Shared in
(N) tweets' link displays the tweets that mention this URL."
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