6 Most Powerful Search Engines for Social Networks, by Steven Campbell, Make use Of (June 1)
There may be times you only want to seach social networks - check the buzz, find a person, get blog and microblog postings. Turn to search engines that search those sources.
+ SocialMention - comprehensive metasearch with alerting capalibity. Can get sentiment analysis on topics.
+ yoName - find the name and the networks where they are listed.
+ snitch.name - search popular networks, other tools, some academic and government.
+ Folowen - covers 27 social networking sites.
+ Samepoint - follow a conversation - get snippets and source.
+ Google Social Search - yes Google has a social search that will show in the left rail if you have developed your social contacts through GMail.
Posted by Gwen at June 5, 2010 06:22 PM