Scoopler
Encyclopedia
Scoopler is a real-time search engine
. Scoopler was created by AJ Asver and Dilan Jayawardane
, and launched in Private Beta in April 2009.http://www.scoopler.com/about/. Scoopler gets its results real-time from a variety of services such as Twitter
, Digg
, Flickr
and others. Scoopler is funded by Y Combinator
.http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/05/08/search-goes-real-time-with-scoopler-twitter-dominates-results/.
Scoopler's result page is divided into three columns. The middle column shows the actual results of the users query, this column updates in real-time. The items here are only around 20 minutes old. The left most column shows the users recent searches and hot topics. The right column shows popular results.
Most of the results from Scoopler are from Twitter
at any given time, however, searching for less popular search terms return results from other sources.
Scoopler is no longer running as the developers have been contracted to work on Google+
Search engine
A search engine is an information retrieval system designed to help find information stored on a computer system. The search results are usually presented in a list and are commonly called hits. Search engines help to minimize the time required to find information and the amount of information...
. Scoopler was created by AJ Asver and Dilan Jayawardane
Dilan Jayawardane
Dilan Jayawardane is a Sri Lankan software architect, an entrepreneur and a founder of the real-time search engine Scoopler.- References :...
, and launched in Private Beta in April 2009.http://www.scoopler.com/about/. Scoopler gets its results real-time from a variety of services such as Twitter
Twitter
Twitter is an online social networking and microblogging service that enables its users to send and read text-based posts of up to 140 characters, informally known as "tweets".Twitter was created in March 2006 by Jack Dorsey and launched that July...
, Digg
Digg
Digg is a social news website. Prior to Digg v4, its cornerstone function consisted of letting people vote stories up or down, called digging and burying, respectively. Digg's popularity prompted the creation of copycat social networking sites with story submission and voting systems...
, Flickr
Flickr
Flickr is an image hosting and video hosting website, web services suite, and online community that was created by Ludicorp in 2004 and acquired by Yahoo! in 2005. In addition to being a popular website for users to share and embed personal photographs, the service is widely used by bloggers to...
and others. Scoopler is funded by Y Combinator
Y Combinator
Y Combinator is an American seed-stage startup funding firm, started in March 2005. Y Combinator provides seed money, advice, and connections at two 3-month programs per year...
.http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/05/08/search-goes-real-time-with-scoopler-twitter-dominates-results/.
Scoopler's result page is divided into three columns. The middle column shows the actual results of the users query, this column updates in real-time. The items here are only around 20 minutes old. The left most column shows the users recent searches and hot topics. The right column shows popular results.
Most of the results from Scoopler are from Twitter
Twitter
Twitter is an online social networking and microblogging service that enables its users to send and read text-based posts of up to 140 characters, informally known as "tweets".Twitter was created in March 2006 by Jack Dorsey and launched that July...
at any given time, however, searching for less popular search terms return results from other sources.
Scoopler is no longer running as the developers have been contracted to work on Google+
Google+
Google+ is a social networking and identity service, operated by Google Inc.The service was launched on June 28, 2011, in an invite-only "field testing" phase. The following day, existing users were allowed to invite friends who were over 18 years of age to the service to create their own accounts....