Rise of the social media search engines
This is a follow up form my previous post on finding conversations on the social media. Since posting that up I was sent and stumbled upon many more social media search engines. Yes, not just blog search engines like Google BlogSearch or Technorati, but social media search engines that attempts to index the conversations on all as many social media sites.
Working backwards from today we have Artiklz which was featured on TechCrunch and sent to me by Kelvin. It seems to keep going down, probably the load from being featured on TechCrunch.
Found daymix on Pat Law's blog. This is the funkiest looking search engine of the bunch.
Got to know about Samepoint and Serph from Rod who posted a comment on my blog.
Can't remember how I stumbled across Social Mention, but I quite like it.
And then there's WhosTalkin which I blogged about previously.
This is an interesting trend we're seeing. Once upon a time it was web pages that gave birth to search engines like Yahoo, then blogs were important enough to warrent Technorati, and this week I find six new search engines all racing to be the chief gateway to finding conversations on the social media. I absolutely love where this is headed.