5 Cool Social Search Engines For Digging Up Info

There was a time when you could count solely on services such as Google to dig up information and get your research done. But these days it’s hard even for Google to keep up with all the content that is being generated in top social networks such as Twitter. While it’s true that Google and Bing are taking steps to integrate as much user generated information as possible in their search results, there is a lot of work ahead of them. Thankfully, there are powerful social search engines out there that help you go through user generated content on the web and get ideas for your blog or even your next product.

If you are looking for a search engine that lets you search through user-generated content on the web, these 5 social search engines may help you out:

Social Mention: a powerful social search engine that lets you search through blogs, microblogs, events, and other social networking services. You can think of it as your Google Alerts for social media as well.

Collecta: a real time search engine that can help you stay on the top of your niche and find out what people are talking about online in real time. Very powerful.

Topsy: one of the best Twitter search engines around. A lot of people are hooked on Tweetmeme, but I personally prefer the way Topsy presents information about discussions going on Twitter. It shows you who the influential twitterers are and what content they have tweeted about. It helps you find new content as well.

Twingly: Twingly not only allows you to search through micro-blogging platforms such as Twitter, it also enables you to find the best blogs on the Internet as well. A great tool to keep track of hot stories on the web.

Feedmile: as its slogan suggests, Feedmile is a feed search engine that can help you find what you are looking for by searching through social networks, blogs, podcasts, and other public media sources.

What’s your favorite social search engine?