Bumped into an interesting website the other day with a somewhat nice name.. Convoflow. Its a “a real-time search engine that harvests from social media content”.
It gets “conversations” from twitter, friendfeed, digg, blogcatalog, technorati, and even videos from youtube, and pics from flickr.
Convoflow was founded by Jay Fajardo. According to him, Convoflow “aims to provide a fresher set of information as an alternative to the traditional archival content gleaned from standard search engines. This is particularly important as the velocity of information on the web increases and its relevance is determined by social capital.”
Tried it out and its fast.
However, unlike regular search engines, it doesn’t accept words in closed quotes yet.
This site has a lot of potential. As big search engines would search everywhere, here’s a site where it only searches through social networking media sites.
Maybe it could add plurk, facebook, friendster, myspace, etc. Plus add RSS feeds for search results just like twitter.
