I search Twitter all the time to see what people are saying about WebMynd and other topics so thought it was time we did a Twitter-centric extension. We thought real-time results next to the rest of the web would be really interesting. Would love to know what people think.
We've also worked on the design of our interface to make it easier to configure which sites you like to search.
However, it's more weird than I would have anticipated to see what people are twittering about your Google search phrase (even if boolean'd).
And it definitely shows the disparity between Twitter search and Google search. Google's PageRank for relevant results beats Twitter's democratic and/or anarchic search results.
However, since Twitter is real-time - search terms of current, transient topical nature like 'Susan Boyle' would definitely be more relevant and interesting. Also, AVC's article about linking being sent by friends points to a possible shift in Twitter's favor. And makes me wonder when Twitter will allow filtered searching against your follower graph.
"found that among the thousands of 14-24 yos they surveyed, 88% of the links they followed were sent to them by friends. They're not clicking on ads or even using search results as much as older demos."
I use a Greasemonkey script to achieve similar results. The search appears above the Google organic results, and I don't lose the advertising on the right (which I need to see as it's by biz)
If you have a moment, I'd really love to know which sources you find yourself using most, which ones you wish were there and what other features you use (sharing links, visual history). Care to post about it?
Sorry for hijacking this thread, but does Webmynd ignore history in Privacy Mode ?
Even though I'm a Safari user, Webmynd is a pretty good reason to get back to Fx. My sources (in order) are: Wikipedia, Delicious, Twitter, HNews, Reddit.
I would like to have GitHub as a source (even though it might only be interesting to developers). Also you could make an anonymous data collection for statistics, I would happily opt-in.
WebMynd does allow you to store and search web history, but you can turn it off whenever you like and completely disable it in our settings panel.
In fact our setup wizard asks whether you want web history search or not right up front. And our custom extensions for Twitter, Hacker News and others have it disabled by default.
To be clear, we never share history data, even in aggregate, or use it for any other purpose than giving you better search results.
We've also worked on the design of our interface to make it easier to configure which sites you like to search.