Preliminary List of Beyond Search Evaluated Social Search Systems
December 23, 2009
The goslings and I had some disagreements about what to include and what to exclude. If you read my column in Incisive Media’s Information World Review, I have mentioned many of these systems. In London earlier this month a person asked me to run a table of the social search systems. I anticipate that a large number of azure chip consultants, poobahs, satraps, and SEO mavens will have a field day recycling these links. The addled goose is too old and too disinterested to honk much about short cuts.
As with our list of European enterprise search vendors, we will add to this list over time. I will not include my ratings for each system in this list. I have not decided about using my goose ratings as part of the Overflight service or one of the listings on my archive Web site. If you don’t agree with a site’s inclusion or if you have a site to suggest, use the comments section of the Web log. There will be some weird breaks and spacing issues. WordPress often baffles me with its handling of table code. If the breaks annoy you, the addled goose says, “Create your own list.” Honk.
| Name | Description |
| Aardvark | Tap into the knowledge and experience of friends and friends-of-friends. |
| Almost.at | Follow people at real world events in real time. |
| Backtweets | Search for URLs posted to Twitter. |
| Bigulo | Allows you to find friends, old and new, on social networking sites |
| BingTweets | Real-time info on the hottest Twitter topics |
| BoilingPage | A real-time statistics platform that shows what’s hot among people in different verticals. |
| BuzzFeed | The viral web in real time. |
| Collecta | Monitor the update streams of news sites, popular blogs and social media. |
| CrowdEye | Tracking discussions on Twitter it locates info in real time. |
| DailyRT | The most popular tweets ~ a retweet frequency search. |
| Delve | A “socially connected” search tool in alpha based on your friends influence on content. |
| Explode.us | Find friends and those with common interests, no matter what social network or service they use. |
| Faroo | Peer-to-peer web search engine. |
| FriendFeed | A service to have conversations around shared items, or to show that you like something a friend has shared. |
| Google Social Search | Find blogs, reviews and other public content from your Gmail chat buddies and your broader social circle. |
| Itpints | Find what people are publishing on internet in real time about anything you want at the same time you’re searching for it. |
| Lijit | Search your blog, bookmarks, blog roll and more…all from one little box |
| Mahalo | Spam free search results for the most popular search terms. |
| MicroPlaza | Popular topics and news from the Twitter public timeline. |
| Mr. Taggy | A web browsing guide constructed from social tagging data. |
| Omgili | Integrates Web page indexing with real-time Twitter results and re-tweet ranking. |
| OneRiot | Uses your social network to influence the search universe for your query but takes heavy consideration of what’s currently popular within your network when sorting search results. |
| SamePoint | A social conversation search engine that segments search by: Social Mentions, Discussion Points, Bookmarks, Wikis, Network,s B2B Networks, Groups, Life Casting, MicroBlogs, Reviews, Podcasts, Documents, Video, Images, News and Web or all. |
| Scoopla | Real-time search engine. |
| Scour | Search engine that shows your rank on the top 3 search engines in the results. |
| Searchons | Get better search results based on this community. |
| SearchWiki | Social search awards points that can be exchanged for prizes. |
| Serph | Find out what people are saying on the web right now. |
| Social.com | A directory help keep track of and share interesting sites. |
| SocialMention | Search a term on specific categories of the social web including: Blogs, Microblogs, Bookmarks, Comments, Events, Images, News, Video or All. |
| Sphere | Discover high-quality, relevant, and timely blog posts. |
| Squidoo | Brings the power of member recommendation to search. |
| Streakr | Discover websites, video, pictures and people; find it, rate it, download it. |
| Surchur | Real Time Search and Real Time Discovery. |
| Technorati | The recognized authority on what’s happening on the World Live Web, right now. |
| Topsy | A search engine powered by tweets. |
| Twazzup | Keep track of hot topics on Twitter. |
| Tweefind | Twitter search results by user rank. |
| TweetGrid | Create a Twitter search dashboard that updates in real time. |
| Tweetmeme | Aggregates all the popular links on Twitter to determine which links are popular. |
| Tweetzi | A Twitter search tool that provides an optimized search interface into the real-time world of Twitter. |
| Twine | Receive recommendations based on your interests. |
| Twitalyzer | Analyzes tweets using influence calculations. |
| Twitority | Authority based twitter search. |
| Twitter Search | The fastest way to search Twitter. |
| Twittorati | Twittorati tracks the tweets from the highest authority bloggers. |
| Who’s Talkin | Searches and sorts data from over 60 of the internet’s most popular social media gateways. |
| Wowd | Discover what’s popular on the web. |
| Yauba | Searches blogs, micro-blogs, social media sites, and many other types of Web content. |
Goslings who contributed to this list include Anthony Safina and Stuart Schram IV. Honk.
Stephen E. Arnold, December 23, 2009
A freebie. Happy holidays! Report me to which ever government authority with which you have a Vulcan mind meld.
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