Social Searcher allows you to apply a filter Google Search by Social Networks. The Google search results will only include the social network you select with matches to that search phrase or keyword.
Where Social Searcher stands out to me is with the Buzz Dashboard. A plethora of data at your fingertips to sort and export to your heart’s content.
All for free! A free account includes up to 100 searches daily, email alerts, saved searches, and oh so much data to sift through.
For instance, you can check off Facebook, enter a keyword like #terrorism and click search. In the Google results, you will only see content from Facebook that is related to that hashtag. The Google social search function you can search Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, and Instagram all at one time.
That’s pretty good. Right? You could probably do something like this in Google search yourself. You could do an easy compound search, filter, give me site, Facebook, and give me these type of terms. That’s very easy to do, but what is interesting in this is that you get the columns so you don’t have to go having multiple tabs or having to search three different times. You search once and you get all of the networks right there for you.
What is even better is that Social Searcher offers you this Buzz dashboard interface. You can view all of the posts related to your search. You can click on any of the posts to open them up and get a deeper look. You can save your searches and set up email alerts by creating an account.
The other thing you can do with this data is that you can export it. Within the exported file you can see the username of the people who are posting it, the URL, date and time it was posted, and what the text was. I can see a lot of possibilities with this by filtering it out, doing a pivot table, getting some bar charts, and, organizing it in a nice data set to present to security personnel.
I think this is a fantastic tool. I don’t think it beats out Hootsuite. I think Hootsuite still beats it out by the ability to do geocoding, but this is a great tool. Go check it out. It’s social-searcher.com. Let me know what you think about it in the comments below.
In this video, I share with you a fantastic social media monitoring website called Social Searcher.
