12 Search Engines in real time

With the avalanche of information flowing instantly on social networks today, it is necessary to go a little beyond the traditional search. The realtime requires knowing what people are talking about, and to find out, we selected 12 search engines in real time.

Some are basic and well known, others offer a wide range of results, everything depends on us more useful to find what you’re looking for. There are tools that collect information on both social networks such as blogs, forums, websites, video and images, news feeds, social bookmarking and more. You just have to try!

• Collecta : Pick updates to the second social networking sites like Twitter, Facebook, Google Buzz, Flickr photos, TwitPic and yfrog, videos from YouTube and Ustream, and posts and comments in blogs.
• Track This Now: Very complete, Twitter and Facebook. Can also be used to search the web and news. The most important thing: The display on a Google map where you are talking about a topic.
• 48ERS : With a look very similar to Google, the search engine gathers results in realtime Twitter, Facebook, Google Buzz, Digg and Delicious. Allows you to filter the results.
• Whos Talkin : It’s a great search engine for blogs, social networks and forums. Integra BackType, FriendFeed, Google Blog Search, MySpace Blogs, Twitter, Facebook, WordPress, among others. It also allows searching for a term news, virtual communities, videos and pictures.
• Social Mention : One of the most comprehensive real-time search engine for blogs, microblogging, networking and social bookmarking, images, news, videos, audio and more. Its advantage over others is that it allows the user to create an alert to their areas of interest: “As a Google Alert, but for Social Media.”
• ItPints??: Very useful for search on Twitter and Facebook simultaneously, can also filter results by one of these social networks.
• PicFog : For images and yfrog TwitPic, search also can be filtered by user and location, as well as the possibility that the user saves the total result of photographs.
• Chirp City : To search geolocated Twitter, available in all countries and their respective localities.
• Twitter Fall : In addition to having a way “presentation” to the tweets, can be searched by lists, geolocation, and also filter results by users.
• Twazzup : Collect results of Twitter as user-generated content: more shared links, news and images, and shows new tweets outstanding and most influential accounts in your topic.
• BackType : To measure the impact on the social networks of a given site and compare with the competition.
• Google Realtime : The Internet giant also includes real-time updates, mainly generated content on Twitter. Customize the search defining the location, and reported images.

SOURCE: School of Journalism