Twitter Search Overhaul, Blekko SEO, DNS Malware, Speedlink 27:2012

HI everyone! Hope you all had a great week. This week, there has been some interesting news coming out from Twitter’s engineering manager, Pankaj Gupta, who said last Thursday that Twitter will “forever change search and discovery”.

Search & discovery in @twitter set to change forever after tmrw. Team – congrats and enjoy the enormity of ur impact few understand today!

— Pankaj Gupta (@pankaj) July 6, 2012

Twitter’s official blog announced yesterday, what this major overhaul was all about.

… today we’re introducing search autocomplete and ‘People you follow’ search results to twitter.com. In addition to recent improvements like related query suggestions, spelling corrections and more relevant search results, these updates make it even easier to immediately get closer to the things you care about.

Don’t about you, but I really don’t use Twitter’s search functionality. Perhaps with these new improvements, I might just give it a whirl. How about you? Do you search anything at all on Twitter?

Also this week, search engine Blekko announced their new crawl technology, which adds SEO data in real time. While Blekko is admittedly a search engine, what many of you probably don’t know is that they are also a pretty cool SEO tool “on the fly”. Just try it with (include http) yourdomain.com/ /SEO and see for yourself, that is, if you do care about SEO at all. You get instant SEO information, like, duplicate content, inbound links, crawl stats, etc., now supposedly in real time, about your site or any other domain.

Finally, and in case you have forgotten about the DNSChanger malware that has infected several PCs some time ago, Mashable has reported that there are still some 250K that are infected, and confirmed by the FBI. You can read more about it here, but if you want to skip that, just click this link and if you get a green box, you are all systems go, otherwise (a red box), do read that article for more info.

As usual, in no particular order: