Social Search Engine

I used Socialmention.com to search for the term “genealogy” and got 104 hits.  Many of them were pictures of specific peoples’ ancestors or documents about them, but I did find a long story about a person’s ancestors that was linked on the website Reddit.  Not sure how helpful this would be to a genealogy researcher, except that you could see what updated information was available on a subject or see if anyone else was searching for your ancestor.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Genealogy/comments/3rdqkl/relatives_on_the_wildstein_list/?

 

 

 

Searchingwise, it's more like a Google search than a database search.  There aren't really any limiters, no thesaurus, and it just updates realtime mentions of the selected term.

 

Contentwise, the results would be hit-or-miss, mostly miss.  It's possible you could find a good mention, like the one listed above, but I believe this database would mostly be helpful for researchers of popular culture and trending news items, although Reddit does seem to have a fairly active genealogy group.