We all knew it was coming.  We all blogged it, tweeted it, and left comments on other people’s blogs regarding it.  Twitter is turning into a search and discovery engine before our eyes.

Just today, they announced and implemented (without any large whales getting in the way) , a search box, search trends, and search results, all from the comfort of your very own profile page.  Seamlessly see what people are talking about and find web results without having to think at all.

I’m a big fan, and I think this is only the first step.  What I want to see now is a Twitter search function that only brings up tweets that include links to outside sites, and I want Twitter to rank these tweets based on the number of followers, retweets, and links to twitter profiles.  Now THAT would be a search engine of the future.