If you've ever used PostPost, you know that we're focused on stripping away noise to deliver super-relevant search results to you.

You see it most on the front-end, but our commitment runs all the way to the very back of the back-end.

First, the front-end...

PostPost is a faceted search engine, which in our case means you can focus your search in on links, photos, videos and content from your friends. These facets help you find what you're looking for quickly because clicking them immediately strips other stuff away, and leaves more room to feature what you do want.

Our results are filled with link, photo and video previews (powered byEmbedly).

Image: strip search of @bradnoble's timeline for photos of "Endeavour," refined by @Astro_Wheels

The back-end

Before search results find their way to the front-end (and to you), our back-end goes to work to strip away the noise.

The first pass we make is to focus on the people you follow. No spam here. But we don't stop there. For you folks who follow more than 200 people, we will only show you results from the top 200 people in your timeline. (Those of you who follow fewer than 200 people will get results from everyone you follow.) 

To identify your top 200, we break the people you follow into two groups. First, and most important, are those people you follow who are personally relevant to you—those people you mention most (@replies, @mentions and RTs). In the second group are those people you follow who are mentioned most by everyone else.