Top 5 sites for social search, Pandia (Nov 2)
Pandia offers a definition of social search that I can live with - "Social search is web search aided in some way by social networks."
But you don't have to be a member of the network to benefit, or know any of the people.
The tools selected by Pandia are all open to being searched by anyone.
+ delicious - premier social bookmarking site. Search your own bookmarks, your networks, or everyone's.
+ OneRiot - "crawls the links people share on social networks (mostly Twitter and Digg), then indexes the content on those pages. "
+ Stumbleupon - once the place for serindipitous finds, and now a place for searching what other people have liked enough to rank and review. "It searches an index comprised of pages recommended by StumbleUpon’s 8.5 Mill members. You can search the entire index or narrow the search to your own favorites or the favorites of your friends. StumbleUpon also suggests ways to narrow your search."
+ Scoppler - "indexes sites like Twitter, Flickr, Digg, Delicious and more. " - many features
+ Google Social Search - in the labs - will index the links in your social network - this could include blogs you follow through Google Reader. Has two video demos.
Posted by Gwen at November 8, 2009 06:53 PM