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"Twitter has announced that it has acquired Summize, and simultaneously launched its own search engine at search.twitter.com.  The new search tool has the exact same look, feel, and functionality of Summize, but with Twitter branding.  \nWe\u2019ve followed Summize closely at Mashable, first reporting news of the company\u2019s re-launch as a Twitter search engine back in April.    Since then, Summize has added impressive features like local search, while also hinting at its distribution plans in inking a deal with the Huffington post.  \nThe team behind Summize will be staying on, with all 5 engineers joining Twitter, according to a blog post by Evan Williams.  Additionally, Williams says that Summize\u2019s API will be combined with Twitter\u2019s and \u201Cintegrated under the Twitter brand.\u201D \nIt should be noted that Summize was not the first mover in the Twitter search space and was preceded by projects like Tweetscan.  But eventually they did it best and offered the most commercially viable product, and hence, to the victor go the spoils.  \nWith the deal, it also becomes clear that Twitter \u2013 with its fresh $15 million in funding - is apt to acquire successful products built on its API that fill needs within the site.  Could a desktop client be next?  Leading utility Twhirl was already taken out by Seesmic earlier this year, so if Twitter moves in this direction, it would have to be with someone a bit more under the radar."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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