<s>
Twing.com	B-Application
was	O
a	O
search	B-Application
engine	I-Application
specializing	O
in	O
internet	B-Application
forum	I-Application
content	O
,	O
located	O
in	O
Jersey	O
City	O
,	O
New	O
Jersey	O
,	O
with	O
data	O
centers	O
around	O
the	O
world	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Twing.com	B-Application
used	O
vertical	O
searching	O
as	O
a	O
forum	O
search	B-Application
service	I-Application
that	O
seeks	O
out	O
communities	O
based	O
on	O
common	O
forum	O
formats	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
product	O
disappeared	O
from	O
the	O
Web	O
in	O
late	O
November	O
,	O
2008	O
,	O
when	O
the	O
product	O
division	O
's	O
parent	O
company	O
Accoona	B-Application
ceased	O
business	O
operations	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Twing.com	B-Application
did	O
not	O
use	O
the	O
typical	O
web	B-Application
crawler	I-Application
method	O
but	O
recognizes	O
the	O
footprint	O
and	O
structure	O
of	O
forum	O
content	O
and	O
indexes	O
such	O
content	O
according	O
to	O
its	O
context	O
,	O
and	O
then	O
allows	O
for	O
word	B-General_Concept
sense	I-General_Concept
disambiguation	I-General_Concept
of	O
concepts	O
through	O
use	O
of	O
topical	O
category	O
and	O
other	O
filters	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Additionally	O
,	O
prior	O
to	O
ceasing	O
operations	O
,	O
Twing.com	B-Application
began	O
collecting	O
and	O
indexing	O
content	O
from	O
Twitter	O
and	O
other	O
real-time	O
user	O
generated	O
content	O
sources	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
To	O
allow	O
for	O
disambiguation	B-General_Concept
,	O
Twing.com	B-Application
is	O
utilizing	O
interface	O
concepts	O
such	O
as	O
Faceted	O
Search	O
and	O
Filtering	O
in	O
the	O
Search	B-Application
Engine	I-Application
Result	O
Pages	O
,	O
(	O
SERPs	O
)	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
These	O
are	O
advanced	O
search	O
methods	O
that	O
attempt	O
to	O
assist	O
users	O
with	O
their	O
information	B-General_Concept
foraging	I-General_Concept
efforts	O
by	O
keeping	O
them	O
on	O
an	O
information	O
scent	O
trail	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
This	O
is	O
an	O
attempt	O
to	O
solve	O
the	O
generalized	O
search	O
problem	O
of	O
ambiguity	O
that	O
often	O
occurs	O
in	O
search	B-Application
results	I-Application
as	O
well	O
as	O
forum	O
search	B-Application
results	I-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
If	O
you	O
do	O
a	O
search	O
for	O
bass	O
on	O
Wikipedia	O
,	O
you	O
get	O
a	O
disambiguation	B-General_Concept
page	O
to	O
determine	O
if	O
the	O
phrase	O
in	O
this	O
case	O
means	O
a	O
musical	O
instrument	O
,	O
a	O
company	O
name	O
,	O
part	O
of	O
a	O
place	O
name	O
,	O
a	O
beverage	O
,	O
and	O
other	O
options	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
So	O
category	O
filters	O
can	O
help	O
solve	O
the	O
problem	O
of	O
ambiguity	O
in	O
search	B-Application
engine	I-Application
results	O
,	O
whether	O
such	O
search	B-Application
engines	I-Application
are	O
forum	O
search	O
specific	O
or	O
not	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
com	O
's	O
use	O
of	O
such	O
technology	O
is	O
discernible	O
from	O
seeing	O
the	O
filters	O
available	O
within	O
the	O
search	B-Application
results	I-Application
pages	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
Twing.com	B-Application
robot	O
,	O
(	O
called	O
Twingbot	O
)	O
,	O
was	O
designed	O
to	O
understand	O
the	O
formats	O
of	O
Internet	B-Application
Forums	I-Application
,	O
(	O
a.k.a.	O
</s>
<s>
While	O
the	O
Twing.com	B-Application
product	O
was	O
open	O
to	O
the	O
world	O
in	O
January	O
,	O
2008	O
,	O
the	O
Twingbot	O
robot	O
had	O
been	O
observed	O
'	O
in	O
the	O
wild	O
 '	O
at	O
least	O
several	O
months	O
earlier	O
.	O
</s>
