OneRiot

OneRiot is a real-time search engine that trawls social communities such as Twitter and Digg, news sites and blogs, and returns results for your search term that are organized either by age or by what they like to call "pulse" - how popular they are at this moment, not just how relevant. So the results you're likely to see here probably don't include wikipedia unless lots of people are suddenly Tweeting about it.

It's a way to keep track of the talkers and the talked-about, and because it returns opinion and "buzz" more than referential information, it's very different from a standard Google search which ranks the most relevant information highly. It's also not prey to spammers in the same way as a general-purpose engine so if you choose, you can read a page of links about Sarah Palin without falling over the Phentermine salesmen.

Out of curiosity I decided to search for something not, to the best of my knowledge, in the forefront of today's news: cheese. Would there be people Tweeting about cheese? Yep, there would. Would someone have just shared a recipe for toasted cheese sandwiches? Yep. Cheese sculptures? Yep. Cheese tee-shirts? Awesome.