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Fri, 13 Nov 2009 12:07:34 +0000

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By: Informatie en zoeken in oktober 2009 « Dee'tjes

Informatie en zoeken in oktober 2009 « Dee'tjes — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 07:47:12 +0000

[...] plannen) Google met Twitter in real-time Search (Dutch comboys). Bing is er ook mee begonnen, zie Twitter search in Bing and Google (Karin Blakeman) en How High Will Real-Time Search Fly? [...]

By: Karen Blakeman

Karen Blakeman — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 07:02:09 +0000

Hi Debbie

I’ve had the FF Twitter add-on for about a year and it works reasonably well. As you say it just picks up the most recent 5 tweets on your topic. That’s probably enough to show any relevant hashtags, user names and whether a full Twitter search is worth doing but I do sometimes wish I could increase the number displayed to perhaps 10.

The only problem I have with it is that I also have the Customise Google add-on with streaming switched on and the Twitter results are repeated every 30 web results.

By: Debbie

Debbie — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 13:32:21 +0000

For some time now I’ve been using a Firefox add-on that retrieves the top 5 Twitter results and adds them to the top of the Google search results page. You have to first install Greasemonkey. ReadWriteWeb has a write-up about it at: http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/make_google_real_time_with_twitter_ad-on.php

While I haven’t thoroughly tested the results, I did a quick search this morning for one that you looked for, chemspider, and there were five results, including one from 29 minutes ago.