Twitter Live Search Upgrade to Index Links, Rank, and Reputation

In the ever-expanding informational minefield of by-the-minute, up-to-the-moment updates that is Twitter, getting reliable search results is a twerribly tricky business.

Sure, you can search for tweeps, twibes, and trending topics — but getting accuracy and hushing the din of the site's ever-eager, echo chamber can be incredibly onerous.

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And that's why Twitter's "new vice president of operations", Santosh Janyaram, has announced that Twitter Search  -- formerly Summize -- has received an upgrade to Twitter Advanced Search [that is already live!].

But a new and improved version of Twitter's proposed 'microgoogle' will go beyond scouring the text of posts and #-marked hashtags to include an index of links and url-shortened content — as well as a "reputation" ranking system of people on Twitter.

So be wary and warned of those of you with a penchant for re-tweets only. It's doubtful you'll rank with the best of the topic-trendiest kids in the Twitterverse if you ain't keepin' it engaging and original.

But when it comes to keeping it really real "reputation" — will the celebrity @aplusk's of the world win out over the actually engaging 2.0 nerds like @mashable and @kevinrose?