Showing posts with label educational search engines. Show all posts
Showing posts with label educational search engines. Show all posts

RTBot Get Free Digital Contents from Multiple Sources

RTBot is a cool web application. I think this is going to be one of the most interesting and useful web tools of 2012. RTBot is  a Real-time information service, where you can enter a topic title and instantly get related digital contents from multiple sources (e.g. Wikipedia, Youtube, Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, Books, Newspapers, Magazines) all at once.


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RTBot lets you  access the freshest information and multimedia content about almost any subject, person, place or event in one single place. RTBot aims to be a global top reference site, enriching the way people research, explore, learn, discover and monitor their topics of interest.


RTBot is very easy to use and has a user friendly interface. It is also free and does not require any registration or software installation.


I highly recommend this website to educators and teachers. I have tried several searches on its engine and it just proved to be awesome. Head over to RTBot and give it a try.

A List of some of The best Seacrh Engines for Social Networks

Social networks are playing a major role in today's virtual world. They not only connect people of the same perspective but also provide a bottomless repository of useful web and media links.Think about how many times you this year have shared a link to an important article or a video explaining an important phenomenon . You might go Oh My I can not remember. Yes neither do I . The amount of information shared on Social media  is just as important as the one shared on regular search engines. This is exactly why These social websites constitute a major component of the search results you would get using a search engine like Google or Yahoo.

As a matter of fact, more than 60 percent of the links displayed in a  search result page would  lead to social media websites. With this powerful presence of social media in search engines , a new technology has recently sprouted around the use of social networks as a source of information. There are now several Social Network search engines that provide results from the popular social websites. If you have a quest and you want to search it just in social networks then you can use The list of social engines compiled here. You might be surprised to find results coming from a link shared by one of your Facebook friends or Twitter followers. These social search engines have the ability to filter all the unnecessary search results and provide you with just the ones you want. Using these tools, users will be also be able to garner the results they need without having to search each social network individually.
The following list is not conclusive and I might have unknowingly skipped some tools but the ones mentioned below  are among the best social network search engines online.

1- Social Mention


Socialmention is a social media search and analysis platforms that gathers user generated content from across the social spectrum into a single stream of information. It allows users to :
Esily track and measure what people are saying about a topic or even you
It provides a point in time media search and analysis service
It lets you search blogs, microblogs,bookmarks, networks, videos, images,comments, events . 
It lets you create search alerts and keep track of your topics in social media.


2- Google Social Search

Google Social Search is a great social search engine that I have covered in a single post entitled Google Social Search: Socialized Search Results.

Image Credit: makeuseof.com



3-Social Search




Social Search  is a great search engine that searches links shared by your friends on Twitter and Facebook.


Social-Search.com Intro from social-search on Vimeo.



4- Samepoint





Samepoint  is also a powerful search result. It is geared more towards following the conversations around a particular subject. The results of a search conducted on Samepoint feature a stream of content that provides snippets of conversations together with the icon of the social website the converstaion is taking place on.

Watch this video to learn more





5- Folowen


Folowen is a social media search engine that aggregates information about people and organizations from several social media sites into one single page.Folowen will enable you to follow in a person or organization`s social profile be it in Facebook, Twitter, Friendfeed, Myspace, Linkedin, and many others.





6-yoname

Yoname is a people search engine. It allows users to find people using social media such as Webshots, Digg, Dailymotion, Flickr, Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare, Myspace, Linkedin to mention but some. You search using one of the following ways: first and last name, username, phone number,or email address .






7-Snitch.name


Snitch.name is a cool social search engine. It is commonly known as the social white pages. It offers a simpler way of searching in that it divides sites into categories such as Social ( Facebook, Twitter, Bebo.etc), Professional ( Linkedin), Academic ( Google Scholar,MIT, ect) blogs ( Wordpress), General ( yoname, Google ).









The Best Search Engines

Here is a list of the best research engines. Every tool is explained in an easy step by step tutorial and whenever possible a video clip is also attached to it. Feel free to bookmark and share the links with your friends and colleagues:


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