Search - ranked for social relevance
We recently pushed out a search box on inagist.com, which looks pretty normal but does a whole different take on twitter search. A normal twitter search shows a couple of prominent tweets and the whole real time result stream. We give it two different views. One a search within your follow circle, and another the broader universe, additionally not all tweets are indexed but only the prominent tweets. So a search for "facebook email" after I login to inagist shows me two sections, sorted by activity, allowing me to quickly catch up on something, as perceived by people I'm interested in and the general public.
We take this a step further to apply to trends that we detect in your stream or the channels you follow. As I'm writing this post I get an alert from the chrome plugin that "Prince William" is trending in World News. I click through on the trend and get a gist of the tweets which caused it to trend in World News and also a bunch of tweets from my follow list on "Prince William".
Hope this enhances your experience on inagist.com. We also use this search to power our Related Tweets widget, which you can see in action on the LiveMint blog.
Behind all of this is riak search from the wonderful guys at Basho. I will get more into the technicals of the search and experiences of using riak search in the next post. In the meanwhile do search around and let us know how you are liking / disliking it.
