A new version of Tweefind, a rank-based twitter search engine has been released.
New features and improvements:
- Rank: It’s getting more accurate over time, more parameters are taken into account.
- New sidebar with related content:
- Top-ranked related Twitter users containing the searched keyword on their bio (taken from Tweepfind.com)
- Related content from other blogs/website: Mashable, Techcrunch, R&W Web, CNN, NY Times, Venturebeat, Techmeme, BBC, Google News
- Latest related content from Friendfeed
- Related content from YouTube
- Google (and Bing soon) search immediately available for the same keywords and results enriched with thumbnails.
Check it out and let us know what you think in the comments!
@sizzler_chetan
If Google is bringing in the microblogging search engine very soon, then these all services would get a slap, but till then Tweefind is a good engine.
The top tweeps feature for particular keywords is a good one. Its also showing related content from Google, Youtube etc.
No link?
@filos
Thanks for the mention. The link is http://www.tweefind.com.
@alisonkerr
I tried it out. I wasn’t really all that impressed. I searched on the word nature – 2 or 3 of the good nature tweeters I follow came up, but I know of a lot more who didn’t appear and some of the people who came up seemed highly irrelevant. I had more success using #words.
I suspect there is no substitute for the legwork of finding a few good people to follow, reading their tweets, investigating the people they RT, and then following the ones you like. Checking out the tweets of every new person who follows you can be interesting too, but not as good as the other method. If you want to do the work you can browse through the followers of the people’s who’s tweets you like best to find more interesting folks, but that is highly time consuming.
@CellPhones2009
I like the ideal behind ranking results by user rank but people artificially improve their ranks on Twitter which limits the useful.
@accessibletwitr
Lara, thanks for posting the link! I’ll try it now. PS: I suggest adding a Submit button and a brief description of the service to the home page.
@filos
@steve the rank is calculated by our algorithm, not Twitter, so it is not possible to improve it artificially
@AlexKei
It would be awesome for us, non-english countries, to have a way to select which language we want the results.
Just my 2 cents….
Cheers!
Alex.