The latest city search engine comes to us from Western Pennsylvannia. The five search engines chosen were as follows:
*Unfortunately, we could not work with the strings for the Post-Gazette or City Paper to create individual buttons; however, the “PITT ALL” search engine indexes both of these periodicals as well as:
The “City ALL” search engines have been very popular with local residents who are looking for just local resources. Give it a test drive. Type “best sandwich” in the search field, for example, and you’re bound to get some results talking about Primanti’s…MMMM, I could go for one of those right now.
To add the Pittsburgh Search Engine Channels to your ButtonALL, enter the customization screen and drop down on Cities :: Pittsburgh
The growth of Twitter is documented, some kind of amazing. My goodness, it even made the cover of Time Magazine (of course, who reads print magazines anymore when you can craft a well-designed Twitter feed?).
Growing concurrently at an equally hyper rate are the various Twitter Apps. It has gotten so big, so fast in fact that we actually had to create another “Twitter Search” channel just to accommodate all the new players.
ButtonALL gives you access to all of these wonderful Twitter search tools from one place, one page. We think it’ll make a fantastic time-saving, research tool to track specific trends making their way through the cultural zeitgeist.
Here is a summary of ButtonALL’s two Twitter channels:
Twitter Channel 1
- Twitter (Wikipedia | Twitter | Crunchbase) Makes sense to start with this one. Twitter’s search engine DNA comes from Summize, a Virginia-based company! that Twitter acquired last year.
- CrowdEye (Twitter | Crunchbase) Real-time social search engine that aggregates results in various list and visual summarizations (frequencies, link popularity, tags popularity, etc).
- Topsy (Twitter | Crunchbase) A search engine that weighs search results by Twitter linking activity (quantity and quality of referral). RT = Relevance.
- Scoopler (Wikipedia | Twitter | Crunchbase) A “real-time search engine” that indexes a number of social media sources like Twitter, Flickr, Digg, Delicious and more. Great for searching breaking stories as they happen.
- BackTweets (Twitter | Crunchbase) This is a nice tool to track URLs by searching for tweets containing that particular link. Observe how the Twitter community is re-tweeting (RTing) and reacting to a web page.
Twitter Channel2
- Twazzup (Twitter | Crunchbase) Human-assisted Twitter search engine. Think Mahalo meets Twitter search. Includes a “most popular” side bar.
- Tweet Scan (Twitter | Crunchbase) Microblogging search engine that scans Twitter, identi.ca and other Laconica-based sites.
- Twellow (Twitter | Crunchbase) Sort of a Twitter yellow pages/directory where you can find people and organizations by subject categories, expertise, or personal attributes.
- Tweetag (Twitter | Crunchbase) A Twitter search engine that emphasizes 40 of the most frequent tags (”#s”) being discussed. The more it’s discussed, the heavier the search result weighting.
- Twicsy (Twitter | Crunchbase) A photo search engine that looks for pictures being shared on Twitter (ie, twitpics).
To add the Twitter Search Engine Channels to your ButtonALL, you can go to the customization screen and drop down on Blogs:: Twitter Search.
Remember, in the customization screen, you can always add, delete, and re-arrange channel orders (via drag n drop).
Bibiliography
Third channel?? Yes, while researching for this article, I came across another set of good Twitter search candidates/resources. Gonna need a bigger boat.
