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Life & fun · September 24, 2013

A search engine based on social signals

We built a search engine that shows you the most engaging stories/topics being shared across Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin, and Google+. We crawled over 15 million articles the past 3 months, retrieved the total number of Facebook likes, tweets, Google+’s etc and built a search index around it. Here's what our infrastructure looks like: Rails/Redis: We use the Sidekiq gem as a message queue. We have hundreds of workers that do the crawling, data mining, and number crunching. ElasticSearch: We built the search index using ElasticSearch, with the data imported from our Postgres…

A search engine based on social signals launched on September 24, 2013 with 46 votes, #26 of 422 launches that month and more than 90% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 13 years on.

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In plain words

A search engine that indexes the most engaging content being shared across Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Google+. It crawled over 15 million articles and ranked them by social signals like likes, tweets, and shares to show what topics are generating the most interest. Built for marketers and agencies who want to track trending content, monitor brand mentions, research journalists, and discover content ideas for their industries.

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From the sources

Get the inside scoop on your industry with BuzzSumo. From tracking mentions, to finding creative content ideas, we

See how much interest brands and content generate in the wild. The answer is: Yes. And with BuzzSumo it’s a steal! We’ve got payment options for all budgets, and a 20% cost saving on annual plans. For marketers and marketing agencies wanting to take their content to the next level. For agencies needing to monitor coverage, research and outreach to journalists, and track trends. Ideal for the entire marketing team in large brands and agencies. No-holds-barred access. Everything household-name brands and agencies need. We’re too modest to brag . . . So we’ll let our customers do it forfrom buzzsumo.com

In the maker’s words, at launch

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