News Bits: Search Comes to Nest?

Written by Eve Bergazyn

Tuesday, July 8. 2008 at 11:30 AM EDT Post a comment

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Twitter may soon be adding search to its functionality, with the acquisition of Summize, according to blogger Josh Chandler. The rumor-mill is a-chirping [ed. note: tweeting?], with a TechCrunch source confirming that the companies are "in discussions," and a Silicon Alley Insider source denying it.

The Twitter-focused search engine looks like Google -- the homepage is undeniably Google-like, and research and development is visible on the site's Summize Labs.

In the pipes: Visualized Reviews, which appears to aggregate blogger ratings of movies, and the already-online Realtime Twitter Sentiment, an evaluation of how people feel about the subject of their Tweet. For example, it looks as if people are feeling "swell" about Microhoo, which the search engine established by analyzing the "sentiment of words and phrases found in tweets."

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