Our Favorite Tools For Searching Through Social Media

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Social Gaming Craze get’s Crazier

Years ago, if someone said to you that they were playing an online game on a social network and you could farm, buy livestock and purchase special items for your farm with actual money to get fake money? You’d probably more then likely think they had a screw loose. However, those of you that .... More »

Search using Facebook

There is no doubt that Facebook is a great marketing tool for anyone who has an online presence. With millions of users, Facebook dominates the social media marketing terrain and gives any online business the power to reach thousands in the blink of an eye. The most difficult thing about using Faceb.... More »

Path Launches with a Friend Limit of 50

The new start up, Path, was launched today. Path’s founders drew a lot of attention right from the start. That is because they are none other than Dave Morin, the former Facebook senior platform manager, Dustin Mierau, co-creator of Macster and Shawn Fanning, co-founder of Napster. Path is fo.... More »

Google Updated their Google News

Today Google has recently released a newly redesigned version of their Google News section for U.S. users. The main focus of this update is that they are trying present news stories occurring all around the world and they want to provide a user customizable for individual users. They have a "News fo.... More »

Blogertery Shut Down

It appears that the free blogging platform for Blogertery is no longer or is it? Burstnet.net makes no apologies for shutting down Blogertery and also claims that Blogertery was shut down due to it hosting materials that were discovered to be in violation of their terms of service. It has bee.... More »

As more and more of us come to rely on social media, not only for marketing campaigns but as a means to get breaking news, engage with peers, and so on, the need for search engines which target blog posts, Tweets, Diggs, social bookmarks, etc has increased.

So, we set out to find the best social media and real-time search engines that exist. Turn your eyes away from Google for a coupe of hours and explore the numerous discussions and conversations on topics of interest to you!

LeapFish – this is a neat little engine. Blogs, Youtube, Facebook, tweets, diggs, autosuggestion tool for searches, and much more. Definitely worth trying.

SocialMention – has an interesting ranking system, plus regular users, sources, social media alerts, trending topics, and a blog widget.

Whostalking – search by specific category from news, blogs, forums, images, videos, networks and tweets.

Samepoint – offers wide ranging searches across wikis, news, blogs, tweets, bookmarks, networks, podcasts, videos, news and so on.

OneRiot – uses social network information in the results you receive. One Riot basically examines what is being shared and is trending at the moment, so it can bring you the most popular items.

AardVark – you submit your question and the search engine locates the best person to answer for you across your social network of friends and friends of friends.

Fluther – is similar to aardvark, although it also displays all questions recently asked, and you can discuss your questions and answers in real time with other users and experts.

That’s a few to start with. Please let us know more – these will certainly provide fascinating insights into what people are looking for from the social media they adopt.