Comments on: Twitter search sites: The three best, and all the rest

When you want to know what's happening on the Web right now, Google won't cut it. These sites will.

[monkeyfun14]

I hate the term real time search for the world wide web because it truly is not possible. To truly get the absolute lastest information out of the world wide web you would need a datacenter or several that can reindex the whole web in seconds.

With twitter it can be done because all of the tweets could probably realistically fit on a 320gb harddrive.

[Darcy_Bennett]

This is like complaining about the World Series because it does not include teams from Zimbabwe ... this is just shorthand for being able to get some sort of information even when it was published seconds ago.

At any rate, this is a good list. I've tried them all and each definitely has its pros and cons.

Of the list, I think Yauba deservces a second look, as while it does offer real time search, it offers a lot more than the others in terms of other features. The other search engines seem to me to be more complements to the big search engines, where Yauba conceivably could be a replacement.

[LisaQuinn]

I just wanted to bring another efficient search engine to the list, eZanga.com. Their search technology retrieves results from multiple search engines displaying only the most relevant results without duplication or overlap. eZanga provides alternative searches including how to videos, images, shopping results, and other keywords that specifically relate to your searched terms. This, of course, helps focus your topic, making information even easier to find. Check it out: http://www.eZanga.com.

[lucafiligheddu]

Rafe, Tweefind is not a realtime search, but based on the users' rank. Can you explain what sort of "uneven experience" you got? Thanks!

Luca Filigheddu
CEO
Tweefind.com

[rafe]

Updated the post. Thanks for the clarification.

[wavehandslikeclouds]

Twitter search searches Twitter, not the web.
Check out Skygrid (www.skygrid.com) for real time financial news. The search is by company names or by portfolios. News are clustered around events, very nifty. Very fast, too. The site (beta test by invitation) seems to be evolving fast.

[mkennedy66996693]

Hi Rafe. Here's one more for "all the rest" list: http://dotnet.ubbuzz.com/

Michael

[javisarias]

Hi!

I'm the developer of itpints! thank you for adding it to the article.

I would like to read more feedback from you about the site.

Thanks!

[GregoryMartin]

I use TipTop to search Twitter and get fresher, more synthesized, and highly relevant results for my search queries. Fortunately for us, TipTop can unleash the value in this massive volume of information and address many types of user needs to help inform, make decisions, or provide answers through user generated content and referenced links. A search on TipTop for ?iran violence? http://www.feeltiptop.com/iranelections%20OR%20iran%20violence/ not only provides live search and weighted results for all the Tips (positive messages) and Pits (comments with negative sentiment) surrounding the topic queried, but also allows filtering of the thousands of messages by related concepts and categories. Where else can you get sentiment infused natural language search results for queries such as http://www.feeltiptop.com/so+you+think+you+can+dance. TipTop is pushing the envelope in this respect.

[Harrison912]

I mainly use Twitter to socially market my safety and security web site so this information is very helpful. Thanks, Rafe.

[buscpae]

i also highly recommend

http://www.all140.com

[henrymackintosh]

NIce article but I feel you should have included http://twitterjobsearch.com in the list. It is a true real time search engine "that goes beyond the tweet".

[waterlevels]

Tweeting or not i think there is always a lot to learn about making the best of twitter.

[ssaikia]

TWITTER: DISCOVERY VERSUS SEARCH

It is interesting that experts distinguish between search and discovery.

I like the following DISCOVERY sites
- www.twubs.com
- www.bit.ly

As for SEARCH it's interesting that I have not found anything that I like a lot!

[wesley_davis2]

I would throw in tweetnews too

http://tweetnews.me

It uses Twitter as a ranking signal for fresh news as opposed to just ranking tweets themselves. Gets you the reliability of news with the speed of Twitter.

[Dowlapalli]

"Google and Bling don't do it yet, but a growing number of new search services scan Twitter and other sites in nearly real time."

I believe its Bing not Bling. And yes it is good :-)

[lonestarState]

Earthoid.com offers twitter search via real-time and is 100% ajax!

[jeffgtr60]

Google will sorta do real time. Bing on the other hand falls on it's face. The MJ event was the perfect time to see what Bing had in it. In a word. Fail. It's ok if you want to use search as entertainment, but if you just want to ferret out some information Bing is not your friend.

[elenaBRZ]

Hi Rafe,

Have you tried Microplaza? http://microplaza.com
Give it a try as noise vs signal tool for your own twitter network...

Greetings from Spain,

Elena

[Monika_Lorincz]

How about surchur.com? Our real time search engine not only shows twitter updates, but also incorporates one of the broadest selections of sources - blogs, news, pics, products and more. Experience the world in real time ;)

Monika Lorincz
http://surchur.com

[pradeepvs]

I use TipTop to search Twitter and get fresher, more synthesized, and highly relevant results for my search queries. Fortunately for us, TipTop can unleash the value in this massive volume of information and address many types of user needs to help inform, make decisions, or provide answers through user generated content and referenced links. A search on TipTop for ?iran violence? http://www.feeltiptop.com/iranelections%20OR%20iran%20violence/ not only provides live search and weighted results for all the Tips (positive messages) and Pits (comments with negative sentiment) surrounding the topic queried, but also allows filtering of the thousands of messages by related concepts and categories. Where else can you get sentiment infused natural language search results for queries such as http://www.feeltiptop.com/so+you+think+you+can+dance. TipTop is pushing the envelope in this respect.

[drburix02]

Here's another brand new real-time search engine: Feedmil.com. Feedmil.com is a real-time feed search engine that can find quality streams as well as current hot streams for a topical query.