Another kind of social search engine is provided by Greplin. The service enables to search through own content stored on various accounts across the web. This includes the most important social networks and other online tools like email and calendars with other services following. The service makes it easy to find own information, which usually is stored at various online accounts today. Below is a video introduction to Greplin.
A couple of search engines have been started lately enabling to search for content published at Facebook. Booshaka is the newest one following the already introduced social search engines Wowd, Kurrently and Facepinch.
Booshaka searches the whole Facebook network with its content provided by over 500 million users and makes the content available by an search interface and various rubrics at the homepage. The focus of the results are most up to date information, most popular information and trending topics. The search results are provided in realtime with options to immediately share and discuss the issues. The service describes itself as a trend engine and uses a proprietory algorithm called PostRank to provide the results. To get further information visit the Booshaka homepage.
Wowd is a new search engine, which enables to search the web in realtime and offers a social networking software including a social search engine for Facebook content.
The web search engine is directly available by the Wowd homepage and offers comfortable options. The search happens in realtime, which makes it favorable to research news. The news are assorted by the most important current news and by a Best all Time feature. Current news are updated within the search result pages and assorted by categories, too. Furthermore a newsfeed function is available to receive personalized news based on the terms of a search query.
The second essential feature of Wowd is a software. This software enables to access news streams and status updates on Facebook in realtime as well as to get personalized results out of status updates of friends. At the same time the software is a social networking tool to post and to manage own status updates. Further functions are bookmarking, bookmark management and again a search feature to access the bookmarked content. The software is free and may be downloaded here. An introduction to the social networking functions of Wowd is provided by the following video.
