In March 2008 Twine was reviewed poorly by Marshall Kirkpatrick of Read Write Web. As we enter a new decade it seemed like time to kick the tyres again. Unfortunately Twine is still offering a poor search experience and also seems to have fallen foul to spam results. Of the 5o queries I tried (from San Jose, CA) most timed out. The few results Twine provided demonstrated poor relevancy to say the least. Below is a screenshot of Twine results for a fairly easy to handle [flights to NYC] which results in results for Lagos, Nigeria.
twine search engine
Most queries were answered by a long delay and followed by an error page:
Twine Fails 2
Unless things start happening rapidly down Twine way, I suspect Twine will be no more than an interesting search concept that failed to gain scale or achieve relevancy.
