Topsy Brings Us One Step Closer To Social Search, Where's Facebook?

This afternoon Mike Arrington posted about a new search engine called Topsy. The new service is built on the back of Twitter’s API and combines information like retweets, and general user influence to produce relatively accurate search results. It uses a similar algorithm to the one I suggested Facebook should use back in January. Since then, Facebook has made little progress in regards to search, at least that’s publicly known.

While the company is actively developing new products and improving existing ones to help people communicate more effectively, search doesn’t currently appear to be part of the company’s primary vision.

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