If you are wondering what search engine to use on a daily basis, you have to choose between more than a 100 ones. Though choice. But there are so many choices you have to make every day, what to wear at work, how to ask for a raise, take the umbrella with you or not, black coffee or with cream, sleep 5 more minutes or wake up and arrive earlier to work…and so on…let me ease at least this choice – choose surchur.com. Why? Here are a few suggestions:

• Real time search is becoming crucial - whether to journalists who mine the online data, surfers looking for the hottest topic or people monitoring their favorite topic on an ongoing basis. You might want to know what people are saying about your brand or business right now
• It is not only a social media search engine, it is a dashboard for news, photos, tweets, blogs, video, products and more for whatever you are searching for
• It is a memetracker for any search term you choose, it has a great selection of sources for the most popular discussions, pictures, blogs, news, video and products relating to your surched keyword – it scan the most important sources to keep you updated
• If you are not interested in all these sources, you may choose to view your topic only in the selected source, for example pictures http://surchur.com/pictures/july+4
• The latest web trends are continuously tracked so you don’t miss out on anything that is hot right now, weekly hot or catching fire
• It is a one-page-overview meta-search engine where every single page has a clean URL– great marketing tool, but not only…
• You can bookmark a clean URL and whenever you check that page you will always find it updated
• It has a surchbar which shows you just how popular your topic is on surchur, blogs and twitter
• Any search you make and all the hot topics can be tracked via RSS feed
• The history feature for a topic gives you the opportunity to see what was going on for a topic in the past.
• It’s time saver, well designed, and organized.
• Need more? We improve with customer feedback so feel free to add a comment

Let me know what other reasons you have for using surchur.com and feel free to rate the above mentioned ones. Veni, vidi, surch!

It’s easier to keep track of your favorite topic with surchur.com. It is not only a social media search engine, it is a dashboard for news, photos, tweets, blogs, video, products and more for whatever you are searching for. Whenever you surch the page displays “hot” results from Digg, Delicious, Twitter, Flickr, Photobucket, Pixsy, Google Blog Search, Icerocket, Techorati, Newsvine, Wikio, Yahoo news, Youtube, Truveo, Ebay and Amazon. These sources are simultaneously scanned and they display the topic according to popularity. It’s an easy way to keep track of what is hot right now on different social media sites.

The first thing you notice, when surching for something is that you can hover over the links that appear in the different source areas, and a short summary appears of what it’s about. If none of the showed links interest you, you may click on the more button thus more links appear. If you are interested only in one type of source, photos for example, you have the option to click on the source name and you will see all the possible entries of the searched topic in the selected source type. Moreover, if you are already familiar with the surchur.com features, you can search for your topic even from the beginning in the source you are interested in – you type in your keyword, click surch and then click on the source you are interested in (e.g. pictures) – it’s that easy!
The reason we added so many different sources, is that we want you to have a complete picture of the surched topic and we wanted to give you the option of surching all the internet or just the sources you are interested in keep on surching!

the new surchur

We’ve launched the most recent update to surchur with a new design, a much faster backend and several fun features.  We’ve had a lot of fun testing concepts and coming up with new ideas about how to make the “now” more interesting for our users.  Over the next several posts we plan on highlighting in more detail the different features but for now here is a quick overview of what you’ve got in the ‘09 model of surchur:

The surchmeter:

The surchmeter is a new concept we came up with while realizing that we have all of these topics floating around on surchur and no sense of just how popular they are on surchur and around the web.  The surchmeter helps to solve that so you have a relative sense of how popular one topic is versus another.  On the meter a “10″ means the topic is pretty much as popular as it gets and a “1″ is not so much.

The surchmeter

History pages

The new surchur history feature

The history feature for a topic gives you the opportunity to see what was going on for a topic in the past.  We are caching the pages of our most popular surch topics so that you can go back and view them later.  Simply click on the “history for topic” link and you’ll find a list of all the dates for which that topic has a history page.

RSS enhancements

We’ve enhanced the RSS feature of all of our pages to give a simple summary of what’s going on from a variety of sources for a given keyword.  Simply click on the RSS button in the upper right of any surchur page to see the RSS feeds available.

More sources for popular topics

surchur's new sources for popular topics

We’ve added several new sources that allow you to track what is hot on the internet - on blogs, social media, pictures, videos and more.  We now have Yahoo Buzz, CNN Topics, Google Trends, Twitter Trending and Technorati popular topics available on the home page or by clicking on the “catching fire” link in the navigation bar.

We hope you like the new design and additions to the site.  In coming posts we’ll go into a little more detail about how you can use the new features.

The social and semantic web are ever expanding and at surchur we try to walk the thin line between delivering too many sources (and therefore overwhelming our users) and making sure that we have enough coverage that anything new and exciting being covered on the web for a topic will get mentioned in our surch results.

We cover bookmarking (delicious), social commentary (digg), microblogging (twitter), news, traditional blogging, photos, video and products.  We’ve considered adding Yahoo Answers, OMGILI and others.  What are the sources that you feel would be most beneficial that we are lacking?  Drop your thoughts in the comments below.