Big changes are happening at the Twitter HQ!

Thursday night, Twitter engineering manager, Pankaj Gupta, tweeted that Twitter will “forever change search and discovery”

Facebook also has human capital dedicated to reinventing social search in Facebook.

The heavyweight in the space, Google, is making its own changes in social search as recently as last month.

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Since Twitter’s inception, their search functionality has been severely limited. For example, the platform doesn’t allow you to search tweets of just your followers. On top of that, the search still isn’t very deep, showing only more recent tweets.

Could it also be that Twitter’s changes to the platform were spurred on by Google’s massive implementation of Google+ into their search results? Possibly.

After Google’s update, the Twitter team responded, “As we’ve seen time and time again, news breaks first on Twitter. We’re concerned that as a result of Google’s changes, finding this information will be much harder for everyone.”

Either way, get ready for some great new functionality and much more meaningful data that can come from this. We’ll be checking back and keep you updated on the new Twitter changes!

TWITTER CHANGES SEARCH (UPDATE)!

The new Twitter changes fall into 3 categories:

1. Search autocomplete: much like the way Google guesses your search as you type, “search autocomplete shows you the most likely terms for your query as you enter it – especially useful if you’re trying to follow the hashtag for an event or you’re looking for a certain Twitter account,” according to Twitter engineer Frost Li.

2. Smarter search: according to Li, “if you search for a topic for which people use multiple terms, we will provide relevant suggestions for terms where the majority of that conversation is happening on Twitter.”

3. Filter search results by people you follow: long story short, this feature allows you to block off the rest of the Twitter-sphere apart from your following circles.

Your Turn

Tell us in the comments, who will win the search war? Google, Facebook, or Twitter?

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