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Twitter Upgrades Its Search Engine

PaidContent  Nov 06 09

After months of saying that improvements were coming to its search engine, Twitter has announced a critical upgrade. In a blog post, Twitter says it has started an experiment that will “show higher quality results for trend queries by returning tweets that are more useful.” No details on how that will be determined, but it suggests that Twitter will incorporate the relevancy of a Tweet when users search for a term; right now, Twitter only returns a list of Tweets based on when they were sent.

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