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Confirmed: Twitter Acquires Summize Search Engine

13 points by nickb 18y ago

mrduncan 18y ago
http://search.twitter.com http://search.twitter.com appears to be the new url
tbeseda 18y ago
I wouldn't be surprised if it's still using the API. Anyone else think that this functionality should have been native and built in house? Just seems lazy to me. Regardless, it's a cool tool and I'm glad it's an official part of twitter now.
- riklomas 18y ago
  I think it was more to do with hiring the talent from Summize as well. From the TC article: "Twitter has also hired 5 of the 6 Summize employees."
- michaelbuckbee 18y ago
  Summize was getting a dedicated XMPP feed of the data prior to the acquisition. Search is it's own animal and whether it's "native" or not, it's more important that it works.
- ashleyw 18y ago
  Maybe, but why spend the time creating something if you can buy it, have one less competitor (wasn't it planning on using other services too?), and get some very talented engineers too? Normally, yes its lazy - but in cases like this its just the smart thing to do...
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wallflower 18y ago
Congratulations to Summize - a DC/Virginia based team that built the first robust, fast twitter search engine > Summize revealed the true power of Twitter and its thriving community. Right from our home page you can “see” what people are talking about at this moment via our trending topics. We tamed the Twitter public timeline by bringing some order to the chaos. http://blog.summize.com/2008/07/twitter-buys-su.html http://blog.summize.com/2008/07/twitter-buys-su.html Great developer/startup blog
nickb 18y ago
One really cool Summize feature is the automatically updated search results. Say you're searching for something and you pick some conversation from the SERPs... Summize actually notifies you automatically, right on the page, if the conversation updates. Search with Gmail-like real-time updates? Awesome!

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Confirmed: Twitter Acquires Summize Search Engine

13 points by nickb 18y ago

mrduncan 18y ago
http://search.twitter.com http://search.twitter.com appears to be the new url
tbeseda 18y ago
I wouldn't be surprised if it's still using the API. Anyone else think that this functionality should have been native and built in house? Just seems lazy to me. Regardless, it's a cool tool and I'm glad it's an official part of twitter now.
- riklomas 18y ago
  I think it was more to do with hiring the talent from Summize as well. From the TC article: "Twitter has also hired 5 of the 6 Summize employees."
- michaelbuckbee 18y ago
  Summize was getting a dedicated XMPP feed of the data prior to the acquisition. Search is it's own animal and whether it's "native" or not, it's more important that it works.
- ashleyw 18y ago
  Maybe, but why spend the time creating something if you can buy it, have one less competitor (wasn't it planning on using other services too?), and get some very talented engineers too? Normally, yes its lazy - but in cases like this its just the smart thing to do...
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wallflower 18y ago
Congratulations to Summize - a DC/Virginia based team that built the first robust, fast twitter search engine > Summize revealed the true power of Twitter and its thriving community. Right from our home page you can “see” what people are talking about at this moment via our trending topics. We tamed the Twitter public timeline by bringing some order to the chaos. http://blog.summize.com/2008/07/twitter-buys-su.html http://blog.summize.com/2008/07/twitter-buys-su.html Great developer/startup blog
nickb 18y ago
One really cool Summize feature is the automatically updated search results. Say you're searching for something and you pick some conversation from the SERPs... Summize actually notifies you automatically, right on the page, if the conversation updates. Search with Gmail-like real-time updates? Awesome!