Microsoft veteran launches Twitter search engine

Ken Moss, who led the search engineering team at Microsoft for five years, has spent the last months building CrowdEye, a real-time search engine that aims to allow users to better mine Twitter to get a pulse on hot topics. News.com reports.

The service, which is going into public beta on Thursday, offers up not only the latest tweets on a topic, but also a list of the most popular links on a topic and a tag cloud of associated terms.

"I think that real-time search is the next big thing in search," Moss said in a telephone interview. "It's an area that has been underexploited to date."

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