Social search blossoming

This could be the year when social search finally starts to fulfill its potential. With peer to peer opinion the most influential content on the web, users want to bypass all the slick official sites and repurposed PR blurb to access the honest, eclectic real time stuff being created every second across a host of different social platforms.

The next generation of Twitter search engines have been competing for our attention with the relaunch of Twitscoop and Tweetmeme’s introduction of a newly enhanced set of search tools that allows you to define the Age (ie the past day), Category (ie Technology), Tweets (ie only results with over 500 tweets) and Channel (ie iPhone) of your results. 

(Marginally) less Twittercentric tools can be found in recent beta launches Scoopler and OneRiot.com, which offer realtime web search across various social sharing services such as Digg, Delicious, Flickr and more as well as Twitter - yep, sometimes it can be hard to remember that there are people out there sharing stuff in other places too. OneRiot is the better designed of the two, easily allowing you to identify conversational trends and hot topics, and who is sharing them - and in a concession to Twitter hegemony, a simple button lets you retweet any story you find interesting. 

We’ve long been saying enhanced social search is the future, and it looks like its coming at us, fast.

Brought into the world on Wednesday, May 20th, 2009 and filed under Uncategorized.