Twitter Upgrades Search With Autocomplete, ‘People You Follow’ Results

Twitter has introduced two new search functions that should help improve the user experience: AutoComplete and the ability to filter results out to include only those from people you follow. In the announcement , engineer Frost Li said search autocomplete displays “the most likely terms” to complete a query, as the user is typing. There was no further information offered as to how Twitter determines which terms are most relevant. Google has offered autocomplete in organic search since 2004, when it first launched as Google Suggest (it would be renamed in 2010 ). On Google+, however, autocomplete is not offered; you won’t find it on Facebook, either. Both of those social networks bring up suggested results from within their own site in real time, as the user types, but neither offers alternatives to complete the term typed. Facebook last announced improvements to their inte...

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