Twitter is currently looking to crawl links included in tweets and index the content of these pages, which means that Twitter search will no longer just be a snapshot of a stream of tweets occuring in real-time.. but an archive of webpages that have been historically tweeted or mentioned by Twitter users.

This was mentioned by Santosh Jayaram, currently Twitter’s VP of Operations and formerly a the VP of search quality on Google. What’s interesting is that Twitter Search will develop a ‘reputation’ ranking system’:

BackTweets is a Twitter search engine that allows you to do one thing: find out who links to a specific webpage or website on Twitter. All you have to do is to enter the specific URL you want to check and backtweet will show who is not just talking about it but linking to it.

Backtweets is pretty cool because it does a good job of determining who links, even when there are so many different URL shorteners out there. Note that you can also grab the RSS for your search result so you can monitor the incoming links in your feed reader.

Created by Franz Enzenhofer over at the Face Saerch blog, the nifty Google Twitter integration script allows you to get the above results (notice the ‘Twitter’ tab on the nav bar).

What this means is that Twitter search is set up alongside Google: when you’re typing in a keyword using Google’s search engine, you’re automatically searching for the same thing at Twitter as well.

First things first. You need to be using the Firefox browser because this involves using greasemonkey. After you’ve got both Firefox and greasemonkey, you can click to install the script.

TwitterJobSearch is a search engine that attempts to allow job seekers to find jobs through Twitter. Created by WorkDigital, a London-based company, this allows you to do a quick keyword search and specify the location (eg. event planner in Chicago). According to their about page:

Until now, search engines for social media sites merely looked for words. We’re looking at context. We use semantic tools to look at what was said. We then look at what they’ve said before. We then look at who was saying it. If we do this right, we can figure out why they’re saying anything at all.

Ever wanted to see what people are posting in real-time to Twitpic, the popular image sharing website for Twitter users? Now you can with twipick, a real-time stream of pictures posted to Twitpic.

Not only can you view the latest Twitpic images but you can also do a keyword search for just about anything, although you aren’t likely to get results for obscure terms. The search engine seems to pull results based on keywords used in comments and descriptions on twitpic, which means you might not always get what you’re looking for. But still it offers fairly good results.