Tag Archive for 'Web 2.0 Search'

LeapFish: An Impressive Online Research Tool

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Ian Smith
on November 16, 2009
in Author-Ian Smith, Competitive & Internet Intelligence, Economic Intelligence, Internet tools and Web 2.0 Search
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Here is a search tool that you may want to add to your bookmarks. LeapFish is an application to conduct multi-media, real-time searches and share results with others.  The tool allows users to select the type of query that could be executed, specifically:

  • General Web Search
  • Real Time Search
  • News Search
  • Video Search
  • Image Search
  • Blog Search
  • Shopping Search

The following two images illustrate the search results for a real-time and blog search query for the keywords, “foreign direct investment”.


Figure 1: Results from news sources and Twitter


Figure 2: Results from the blogsphere

To share findings with a colleague, simply place your mouse over the result and click on “Share”.  LeapFish will provide you with the option to post on different Web 2.0 platforms such Twitter, Facebook, Digg, Delicious just to name a few.  Figure 3 shows the complete list of tools.

Figure 3: Web 2.0 sharing tools available on LeapFish

Other value added features of LeapFish includes adding the tool to your browser and customizing your homepage.

LeapFish is available at www.leapfish.com

Twitter Search With CrowdEYE

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Ian Smith
on October 23, 2009
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Many wonder the benefits of searching Twitter for economic development purposes.  For some, Twitter is an example of a platform to search for news articles that may not be indexed by search engines.  In addition, queries on Twitter allows individuals to get a sense of opinions on a variety of topics.  Of course, using the internal search tool on Twitter is advised however; there is an option available.

CrowdEYE permits online researchers to submit queries to obtain results in real-time.

Figure 1 presents the results from CrowdEYE for the keyword search, “economic development”

Figure 1: Results for “economic development” on CrowdEYE
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The result page is structured along the lines of :

  • Time Span - The tool will supply results from 12 hour, 1-day, 2-day and 3-day time periods
  • Most Popular Links - Links that were posted on Twitter along with the keywords
  • Tweets - The actual tweets or “messages” that were posted containing the keywords
  • Related Queries - Access to any similar searches that were done by others on CrowdEYE

These four elements are highlighted in blue in the image above.

CrowdEYE is another web 2.0 search tool similar to Collecta, OneRiot and Addictomatic that might be on Google’s and Microsoft’s acquisition list as the market for social media search tools beginnings to heat up in a hurry.

CrowdEYE is available at http://www.crowdeye.com/

Conversation Search With BackType

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Ian Smith
on October 19, 2009
in Author-Ian Smith, Competitive & Internet Intelligence, Economic Intelligence, Web 2.0 and Web 2.0 Search
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Search engines such as Google and Bing have been late arriving to the party when it comes to real time search capabilities.  Time will only time on whether or not these big players will buy up little niche players such as Samepoint, Addictomatic or itpints when it comes to web 2.0 search applications. In the meanwhile, online researchers can be content with another conversational search tool called BackType.

BackType allows users to find relevant content on blog applications and others social networking websites in real time.

Figure 1 presents the simple search interface of BackType.

Figure 1: Index page of BackType

Using the keywords, “foreign direct investment” to test BackType provides the results as shown in Figure 2.

Figure 2: Results for “foreign direct investment”
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Highlighted in yellow are the number of relevant tweets that BackType has found on Twitter.

As of October 13th, 2009, the advanced search function for the tool was not online.

BackType is available at http://www.backtype.com

Real-Time Search With Collecta

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Ian Smith
on October 5, 2009
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Real-time search engines are amazing.  Within a matter of keystrokes and a mouse clicks, you can have access of what is being said on social networks minute by minute.  With Collecta, you may track what is posted on an individual’s Twitter page and blog. Figure 1 is the index page of Collecta.

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Figure 1: Collecta’s Index Page
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Testing this web 2.0 search tool with the keywords, “iPhone” provides the results as of 10:36 am presented in Figure 2.

Figure 2: Collecta’s Results for “iPhone”
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Two minutes later, the page with the results is modified with new content.  In this case, a blog enter is found by Collecta as seen in Figure 3.

Figure 3: Collecta’s Results for “iPhone” Two Minutes Later
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Collecta is a  tool that should be apart of your toolkit of search applications for the internet searching or competitive intelligence research.

Collecta is available at www.collecta.com