Twitter search will compete…

Stan Schroeder at Mashable begins his post ‘Twitter search to become real search’ by stating that we already know the micro-blogging platforms search engine is often “faster and more relevant” than any other. Nevertheless, it is “very limited search engine”.

Change is a-coming though. Twitter’s new VP of Operations, Santosh Jayaram, in conversation with CNET has revealed that rather than just searching the text contained in tweets the search “will soon begin to crawl the links included in tweets and begin to index the content of those pages.”

The system will also include a ranking algorithm, which will give Twitter the real possibility of competing with Google. As Stan says, “even if Twitter’s search proves to be superior in just a portion of the search market - and it already looks that way in certain cases - it will be a very important dent in Google’s seemingly impenetrable armor.”

This is a development that is going to be well worth keeping an eye on - head to Mashable for all the details.

Brought into the world on Thursday, May 7th, 2009 and filed under Uncategorized.