http://search.twitter.com appears to be the new url

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

Great developer/startup blog

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!

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.

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.

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."

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...