Searching for Vines is about to get a lot less clunky

Say hello to real Vine search.

Search in the Vine app has long been a rather dissatisfying experience. You have two relatively bad choices to view results: Those who use Vine (handles, pretty much) and the tags on Vines. It makes discovery, something parent company Twitter now excels at, virtually impossible. You often could only find new Viners through a revine from someone you already followed.

In a new update dropping in the iOS App Store over the next few weeks (and Android soon after that), Vine will introduce searching for six-second videos using keywords, phrases and even hashtags that will actually reveal Vine posts instead of just linked Vine user handles and related tags. Read more...