Lists
Social Media Search Tools:
| 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. |
