Frustrated With Twitter Search? Try CloudMagic. It Will Blow Your Mind

Although Twitter is brilliant as a service, its a well known fact that its search sucks big time. You can’t search for tweets which are a week old and it’s pretty slow as well.

In fact there was a time, when I used to fire up the now-defunct FriendFeed to search for my tweets, since it provided me with better results than Twitter’s own search.

The San Francisco-based company is trying to make amends by rolling out a new version of search recently, but it is still nowhere near most people’s expectations.

Taking things into their own hands, the team at CloudMagic, a Bangalore-based startup, has now added Twitter search to its repertoire.

For those who aren’t familiar with CloudMagic, it offers browser extensions for Firefox and Google Chrome to enable you to search across Google services like Gmail, Google Docs, Contacts, and Calendar along with its Google Apps counterparts. And the best part is that it delivers these results in Google Instant-esque way and you don’t even need an Internet connection to manage all this.

Using this new Twitter search, you can now search tweets, retweets, and direct messages offline.

But the thing that takes the cake is the ability to search your own timeline, which is simply brilliant.  You can also go to preferences and enable combined search which will allow CloudMagic to display results from all the registered accounts, irrespective of whether the account is logged in or not.

Now I wonder why Twitter doesn’t provide this feature natively, but I guess it is too much to expect from the company when the search itself is quite rudimentary.

Similiar to Twitter search, you can also use various search operators, listed below, to get any specific result.