Twitter Search: Now 3 Times Faster

Last week Twitter announced changes to the search functionality on Twitter.com, adding some advanced elements that expanded the results to include user profiles.

Over on the official engineering blog, Twitter’s search engineer Krishna Gade has written about how modifications to Twitter’s search engine (which began in the Spring of 2010) led to the company replacing their Ruby-on-Rails front-end with a new Java server, codenamed Blender.

End result? Twitter search is now three times faster.

Gade uses the recent spike in search queries caused by the Japanese earthquake and tsunami to illustrate the benefits of the new system.

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