Overview of the current state of searching for information in various social media platforms.

1. Jeff Schneidewind
Emerging Technologies Research Specialist
UC Irvine Libraries
December 6, 2013

2.  Letters in the sand
 What’s the buzz?
 Heard the news?
http://www.pewresearch.org/

5. source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/dominicspics/

7.  Google site search (add site:reddit.com)
 Or use searchreddit.com

8.  Native search
 Search by hashtag (hashtag.org)
 Google site search (add site:twitter.com)

9.  Topsy
http://topsy.com

11.  Graph Search

12.  New Graph Search

13. http://www.socialmention.com

14. http://www.socialsearcher.com

15. http://hshtags.com

16. http://www.riverfold.com/software/tweetlibrary/

17. http://storify.com

18.  http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2208409