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Rowdii.com - An Easy To Use Search Engine with Social Commentary

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http://www.rowdii.com

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Rowdii.com is a new search engine with social commentary and linking capabilities.  By creating an account, users can comment and discuss the result with other users, as well as link sites together.

While the social commentary on search results is nothing new (See our review of Scour.com), the site does present some interesting features and a new take on search results. I’ll walk you through a few of my findings below of this very clean little search engine. More »

Edopter.com - Search and Track Social Trends

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http://www.edopter.com

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edopter.com is a crowdsourcing project in social trends. Which is another way of saying that the site uses a large group of people to find and predict what will popular next. While the site is mainly oriented towards the early adopter crowd (hence the name “e-dopter”), anyone who’s interested in new and emerging technologies and trends will find this site very useful.

On top of early adopters and people who enjoy being part of the “in-crowd”, this site has a huge potential for marketers, businesses, and bloggers alike.  With it, you’d be able to identify which trends might be coming to a store or browser near you and get a leg up on the competition. More »

Vot3r.com - Politics, Politics, Politics.

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http://www.vot3r.com

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*note: This is Part 3 of our Series on the network of Loud3r Vertical Search Engines. You can Follow along by subscribing to our RSS Feed

With the upcoming elections just a few months away, politics seem to be everywhere.  It’s on the news, it’s on the web, it’s talked about at the corner coffee shops.  With so much information out there, it can be a little daunting to try to find and sort through all that information. Luckily, there’s a new search engine out there that can help you make sense of it all… Vot3r.com.

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Me.dium Social Search - Search With Crowd Power!

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http://me.dium.com/search

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Me.dium.com/search is a new project by the social browsing application Me.dium.com and filters content based on what other people are currently browsing.

Before I can talk about the actual search application itself, it’s important to understand where the data supplying the search is coming from.  Me.dium’s first wave in the 2.0 pond came from their social browsing toolbar.  This is an application you can install into your browser that allows you to browse with your friends online; They can see what you are viewing, you can see what they are viewing, and you can chat between each other across web pages. Me.dium then collects the data from your browsing usage (with the appropriate amount of anonymity) to determine what are the most popular pages.

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GroupRecipes.com - Like Grandma’s Recipe book x 1,000

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http://www.grouprecipes.com

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GroupRecipes.com is a social network for cooks or “foodies” as they are called on the site.  Users can upload and share their recipes with others, find recipes that others have made, and also suggest alterations and comment on popular recipes.

Cooking and more specifically recipes are such a social medium in of itself… recipes are handed down from generation to generation and shared among friends.  So, it’s a natural step to have a user contributed recipe site like GroupRecipes.com.

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ThisNext.com - Community driven shopping site

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http://www.thisnext.com

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thisnext.com is a great community based shopping site, where you can find products based on other people’s recommendations. This a great site for finding some rather unique and interesting gifts, typically oriented towards designer or hard to find items.

One of the key success factors of this site would be the community of contributors involved. I would probably describe them as “cool hunters” or have an early adopter type of personality.  People who are just not happy with the standard item you can find at Walmart.  Case in point is this awesome little SteamPunk style USB drive I found while browsing the site.

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Summize.com - Search Twitter in real time

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http://summize.com

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Summize is a “conversational search engine” that currently offers real time search of twitter.  I say currently, because they are planning on adding additional conversational search capabilities to their site. (See their Labs section for a few prototypes they’re currently working on.)

One of the main advantages (and drawbacks) of Twitter is the sheer amount of information that happens at any given moment.  You’re gone for a few minutes and suddenly, there are several hundred posts that have wizzed past your main screen. Many bloggers, marketers, business owners, and just regular people use Twitter not only as a conversational tool, but also as a research tool to gather real time information about what people are talking about.  Whether it be a product review or maybe the presidental candidates at the time, Twitter lets you find out what people are talking about RIGHT NOW.   Unless you’re following everyone using twitter at any time… it’s almost impossible to really get a good sense of what people are talking about.

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