Twingly launches microblog search engine

Blog search engine Twingly has launched a new service: a Microblog search engine. Twitter recently acquired search service Summize and has integrated the search engine somewhat sloppily into its page. But Twingly Microblog Search lets you get up to results from a number of of services all at once.

The new tool lets you search for keywords on Twitter, Jaiku, Identi.ca, and other services, including the now-defunct Pownce. Of course, Twitter is the most highly trafficked microbloging service that Twingly indexes, so the vast majority of search results still come from Twitter unless you uncheck the Twitter box.

You can also grab an embeddable Twingly widget that will show the latest search results on your blog or web site, or you can subscribe to an RSS feed or sign up for email alerts for topics.

Unlike Summize, Twingly Microblog Search doesn't provide real-time results. There's a delay of about five minutes, but the Twingly team promises to fix this in a future release.

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