Scoopler: Social media engine

Scoopler: Real-time search. There are a few social search engines around, and this is the latest to join the ever growing crop. It pulls live updates from Twitter, Flickr, Digg, Delicious 'and more' (though they don't say what that means.) Very straightforward to use - just whack in some terms and you start to get results very quickly. Anything that's updating a lot results in a Twitterfall kind of effect, with very smoothing scrolling that's easy on the eye.

It's happy to work with phrase searching and the minus sign to exclude, though it doesn't appear to use stop words. The 'did you mean' option also appears to be flakey at the moment, linking every search to obama for no good reason that I could tell. Just a glitch they'll get right in no time I'm sure.

There's a 'hot topics' option, and a 'your searches' list, together with 'Popular' linking to all content, videos, links and images, which was a nice touch. Content goes back about 13 days - at least in the search that I was prepared to wade through in order to get to the end.

Scoopler is a nice social media search engine. Simple, straightforward and does the job well. I'd like an advanced search option, help screens (obviously) and RSS together with a full list of sources. However, it's still early days yet, so I'm sure they can pop those ideas onto their own wishlist!

Comments

[AJ Asver (Co-Founder, Scoopler)]

Hi Phil,

Thanks for the write-up and we're glad you liked the service. The "did you mean" feature wasn't supposed to be in production yet so sorry about the Obama love! Curiously, what did you search for when you saw it?