BlogPulse blog search

There is now a prolieration of free social media monitoring tools online. Some, like Google Alerts, are tried and tested mainstream tools. Others, like SocialMention, are moving towards genuine realtime social monitoring. Here are a few that have crossed our path in the past week… We’ll be posting a much more complete list in future – but feel free to add your own suggestions.

Google Alerts – http://www.google.com/alerts
“Google Alerts are email updates of the latest relevant Google results (web, news, etc.) based on your choice of query or topic.”

Monitter - http://monitter.com/
“Lets you “monitter” the twitter world for a set of keywords and watch what people are saying”

TweetDeck - http://tweetdeck.com/beta/
“Create persistent search columns which auto update every time someone in the Twitterverse mentions the search term. Use Twitscoop to see what’s hot across Twitter right now”

Google blog search – http://blogsearch.google.com/
“Blog Search is Google search technology focused on blogs”

SocialMention – http://www.socialmention.com/
“Like Google Alerts but for social media”

Yahoo Pipes – http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/
“Pipes is a powerful composition tool to aggregate, manipulate, and mashup content from around the web”

Blogpulse – http://www.blogpulse.com
“BlogPulse applies machine-learning and natural-language processing techniques to discover trends in the highly dynamic world of blogs”

Ubervu – http://www.ubervu.com/
“Find out what people are saying about brands, stories or events. And follow the comments all over the social web”