Small Business Resources

Boardreader is a search engine for Forums and Boards.

BlogPulse Conversation Tracker provides a missing element to the blog world: a tool for assembling snapshots of weblog "conversations." How? It creates a threaded view of the conversation by performing a depth-first traversal of the conversation graph, starting from the seed post and visiting each node only once.

Epinions helps people make informed buying decisions. It is a premier consumer reviews platform on the Web and a reliable source for valuable consumer insight, unbiased advice, in-depth product evaluations and personalized recommendations.

Google Alerts are email updates of the latest relevant Google results (web, news, etc.) based on your choice of query or topic.

Instead of presenting you with an enormous amount of scattered results from different subjects and websites, Joongel provides direct search results from the ten most viewed websites in a specific subject or subcategory.

A twitter monitor, that lets you moniter the twitter world for a set of 3 keywords and watch what people are saying.

As opposed to traditional search engines, which search for sites and pages, Omgili finds consumer opinions, debates, discussions, personal experiences, answers and solutions. Omgili is a specialized search engine that focuses on "many to many" user generated content platforms, such as, Forums, Discussion groups, Mailing lists, answer boards and others.

A large repository of online reputation management articles organized by date from the top experts in the field.

Searchles is a highly scalable "social search" platform that showcases expertise, enables collaboration with peers and instantly captures it in searchable knowledge indexes. The platform is a hybrid, combining aspects of "social bookmarking" and "social networking" technology with analytical "social search" capability.

Serph is a search engine that you can use to find out what people are saying on the web right now. When you type a query into Serph, it goes out and searches online social media to find the latest buzz. After it gathers the results, they are sorted and organized so the most recent buzz appears first. Serph gathers these results from blog search engines, social media websites, social news websites and social bookmarking websites. This allows Serph to show you exactly what people are saying on the web right now.

Technorati was founded to help bloggers to succeed by collecting, highlighting, and distributing the online global conversation. As the leading blog search engine and most comprehensive source of information on the blogosphere, we index more than 1.5 million new blog posts in real time and introduce millions of readers to blog and social media content.

Search and compare products, brands, companies and people for buzz trends in blogs and social media.

Tweet Scan searches Twitter, identi.ca and other Laconica-based sites with more being added all the time.

See trends in Twitter, find out what is hot and what people are saying about it.

Vanno is a Web-based social evaluation platform where consumers, employees, businesspeople, investors and concerned citizens share their opinions and insights into the companies with which they are familiar, and turn those insights into a quantitative, authoritative measure of reputation, The Company Reputation Index.