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Twoogle performs Google and Twitter searches simultaneously
For instance, if you wanted to figure out whether you were the only person experiencing a Google outage yesterday, all you had to do was look at Twitter. Or a few weeks ago you could find out exactly what people thought about the new Star Trek movie seconds after the surprise premiere in Austin.
Twoogle is a tool that provides the best of both worlds, but letting you search both Google and Twitter at the same time. Just enter a search term, and Twoogle will provide results in a split-screen format, with Twitter search listings on the left and Google on the right.
The only problem I have with Twoogle is that Google doesn't look great when you squash the window, since you wind up providing roughly equal space to search results and sponsored links. But if you have a higher resolution monitor this shouldn't be a problem. FYI, the screenshot above was made using Google Chrome on a 1280 x 800 pixel display.
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Gav said 5:13PM on 5-15-2009
http://www.searchmerge.com/
It's a similar website, but with a different design.
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Dave said 4:25PM on 5-16-2009
Are there any good social-combining search engines that provide an RSS feed? I keep track of people mentioning some of my open source contributions, and I'd rather not have to subscribe to a Twitter search feed, FriendFeed search feed, Google Blog search feed, etc. for every single project.
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ArpitNext said 8:22AM on 5-17-2009
cool! but, I would prefer this tiny greasemonkey script which simply adds real time twitter search results to google result page
http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/43451
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