Comments on: Microsoft veteran launches Twitter search engine

Ken Moss, who once headed Microsoft's search engine unit, is launching the beta of CrowdEye, an engine that tries to offer a better way to mine Twitter.

[orlandorr]

Why would anybody want to search Twitter?

[hmdz105]

hahaha!!! I cannot stop laughing at you , sorry! Just go watch some news, cnn, ....

[Vegaman_Dan]

Advertisers need this information to better target the demographics they want. This sort of information is what sites use to attract those same sponsors. It's a very lucrative market.

[kieranmullen]

What is to keep Twitter from blocking others from searching to promote use of their own?

[woganmay]

Kinda looks a lot like Google - or is that just me?

[lonestarState]

It seems to me that the search above looks abit complicated I found earthoid.com an interesting twitter search engine yesterday, that looks more like a kids toy than anything else. Very interesting what people are doing with twitter content.

Why would anyone want to have to search most anything when they can do an inverse search (http://inversearch.blogspot.com)? Some people define social media (and that's what Twitter is) as dialogue (many to many) vs. monologue (one to many). This depends on which side of the fence you're on. Do I want to have to search through 1000 bits of anything to find the one thing I'm seeking, or do I want to let people know what I'm interested in and let them come to me? Think about it.

[dnscaching]

They created a "realtime" search engine over at snagglesearch that aggregates the best sites from this social search phenomenon. It doesn't look like they include CrowdEye. Probably because they already include the original Twitter search??

http://realtime.snagglesearch.com