14 Real Time Search Engines

Published by admin on December 22nd, 2009 | Tagged Business, Internet and Web 2

Real time search is getting popular because it lets us know what is happening right now on a particular topic. We get to know what people are talking or discussing about and what they are sharing. Here is a list of some promising real time search engines. Most of these search the entire web for updates. Some cover only twitter to generate results. Visit the websites to get to know more about the working of these engines.

1. Collecta

Collecta focuses on real time search and delivers latest information. The engine searches a number of sources including twitter, flickr, youtube, blogs and news streams.

2. Twitter Search

Twitter, the worlds top micro blogging site, can also the used for search. You can use it to find out what people are currently saying about a particular topic or a search term.

3. Scoopler

Scoopler presents the user with popular shares and live updates. Scoopler brings out results from sites like twitter, digg, flickr and youtube.

4. Oneriot

Oneriot generates socially relevant results. The user gets to see what is popular among people and the content that they are sharing.

5. Topsy

Topsy is a search engine powered by tweets. The results are based on the content people link to or share. You can refine your search by month, week, day or hour.

6. Crowdeye

Crowdeye tracks discussions on twitter and lets users to know what people are talking about. You can filter the results if you are looking for something specific.

7. TweetMeMe

TweetMeMe aggregates Twitter’s the most popular links. Users can browse through categories and channels to narrow down on what they are looking for.

8. DailyRT

DailyRT is a tweet aggregator. The user gets to see the most popular tweets and profiles.

9. Itpints

Itpints covers sites like twitter, flickr, plurk, digg youtube to generate realtime results.

10. Wowd

Wowd is a real time seach engine that lets you know what is popular on the net. It covers blogs, news updates and social media sites.

11. Almost.at

Almost.at follows people at real world events in real time. Innovative concept and a nice way of presenting results.

12. Evri

Evri contains millions of profile pages including those of companies, places cities, events, books and movies. Users get to find facts, related news, blog entries, tweets, photos and videos.

13. Yauba

Yauba positions itself as a privacy safe real time search engine. The search results include websites, blogs, news updates, videos, images and real time information.

14. Faroo

Faroo is another nice real time search engine. It features include democratized ranking, twitter integration and personalized recommendations.