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Twingly launches microblog search engine

Twingly Microblog Search
Blog search engine Twingly has launched a new service: a Microblog search engine. Twitter recently acquired search service Summize and has integrated the search engine somewhat sloppily into its page. But Twingly Microblog Search lets you get up to results from a number of of services all at once.

The new tool lets you search for keywords on Twitter, Jaiku, Identi.ca, and other services, including the now-defunct Pownce. Of course, Twitter is the most highly trafficked microbloging service that Twingly indexes, so the vast majority of search results still come from Twitter unless you uncheck the Twitter box.

You can also grab an embeddable Twingly widget that will show the latest search results on your blog or web site, or you can subscribe to an RSS feed or sign up for email alerts for topics.

Unlike Summize, Twingly Microblog Search doesn't provide real-time results. There's a delay of about five minutes, but the Twingly team promises to fix this in a future release.

Filed under: Blogging, Web services, Search, web 2.0

Out of Beta: Gettin' Twingly Wit It

TwinglyToday, the blog search engine Twingly has officially come out of beta.

Twingly allows you to search for the "Best of Blogs", with spam free results, the company says.

The folks at Twingly are also announcing their new widget platform that lets you turn any search result into a widget quickly. See an example here.

We're not sure how "spam free" this is, or what type of technology they use to make this claim, but the results didn't look that great when we did a search.

The saving grace here is that you can vote a result as a "like", which will bring it up in the ranks. A little Digg style there thrown in. It's going to take a lot of early adoption on Twingly's part to make that system work.

Along with the search, you can translate results into other languages, as well as subscribe to an RSS feed of any search as well. That's pretty standard stuff.

The Hot Right Now feature that shows up under the search bar could pick up some steam though. With all of the content out there, the trend seems to be towards companies trying to find a way to bubble up the most "important" or "interesting" content. We'll watch to see how this evolves and to see how accurate and/or helpful it is.

Twingly admits themselves that they're focusing on European blogs even though they're indexing worldwide, so that's something to keep in mind too.

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