We've looked at quite a few real-time search engines here at About Web Search; OneRiot, Trendalicious, and six more. Today we're going to take a look at one of the newest players in the real-time search game called 48ers.
The concept behind 48ers (which, by the way, is an homage to the pioneers of the California gold rush...clever!) is to find content and conversations that are being produced right now, over a variety of social networks including including Twitter, Facebook, Digg, Delicious, etc. Search for a topic, say, "apple", and your results will look something like this:
You can filter your results by provider on the left-hand side; you'll also want to check out the Trending Topics and Useful Searches. Nothing particularly groundbreaking here, but definitely another tool to add to the real-time search arsenal.
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