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Twing is a relatively new forum search tool that launched back in mid-March. Kristen recently reviewed them, and came to a lot of the same conclusions I did this week, as I sat down with Scott Germaise on an episode of Mashable Conversations this week and gave it a good once over:
I was happy to see a rather extensive filtering sidebar that's present for narrowing down all of your search results. Modify existing searches by category, forum name, exact phrase inclusion or exclusion, and more. This is helpful in the sense that it lets you sift through the forums without having to read through all of them. I hate sifting through forums in order to find one measly answer, even with Google caching and Firefox's "Find" function.
As I said at the beginning of our conversation, too, I'm not typically excited or enthralled with vertical search offerings in general, but just sitting down and playing with some ego searches and some brand searches for Mashable, I was able to find a wealth of conversation that previously had been undiscovered by any of my present brand-management feeds I have set up.
Interestingly enough, through their category selection process and the natural self-policing nature of forums, they've also a remarkably spam free set of results.
Scott explained a bit of why that is, and gave me an in-depth tour of the features and history of the website, which you can hear in the embed is available below, or you can download the MP3 file directly here.
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