Posts Tagged ‘Browsing’

Twitter as a search engine?

July 16th, 2008 by David Stone. 6 Comments »

Here’s an experiment. Since Twitter acquired & integrated Summize ($15m Cash+Stock) they’ve had search. A better search then Twitter had previously. So, why not try it as your default search?

For Safari:

  1. Open Terminal
  2. Run:
    perl -pi -e 's/%@.google.com\/%@\?q=%@&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8/search.twitter.com\/search\?no=%@,%@&q=%@/g' /Applications/Safari.app/Contents/MacOS/Safari(this should all be on one line within Terminal)

For Firefox:

Maybe I’ll do a follow up blog with any effects I notice.