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by itniuren on 2009-06-29 13:35:13

A to-be-translated item from Google's localization service has leaked information about Google's new service: a universal search for microblogs, aimed at helping people search microblog content more effectively. This primarily refers to Twitter content. Although Twitter already has its own search engine, it suffers from a significant drawback: it can only arrange search results by time, not by relevance (even though third-party services like Tweefind and Twingly have attempted to search Twitter based on relevance, the results are less than satisfactory). I believe that the microblog search Google is developing will allow for customizable sorting (just like they've added Search Options to many of their search services), and furthermore, Google's microblog search won't be limited to indexing Twitter content. I believe it will be similar to Google Blog Search.