Twitter launched search features this week to help users find tweets, images and videos. Its engineers lay out the specs in a lengthy post. The company's engineers explain that to build the features
they needed to support relevance-filtering for search results and the identification of relevant images and photos. For starters, the engineering group used Blender and Earlybird to support the
project. The long post details removing duplicates, images and videos in search, and the next step.
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