Scoopler is a brand new real-time search engine that aggregates and organizes content being shared on the Internet as it happens. It launched in Private Beta in April 2009 and in public beta on May 8.

How does it work?

Scoopler indexes live updates from services like Twitter, Flickr, Digg, Delicious and more. When you search for a topic on Scoopler, the search results in the middle column give you the most relevant results for your query, updated in real-time.

Scoopler extracts links, videos and images from the live feeds that are indexed and rank them based on how popular they are - i.e. how much they are being shared right now. In the right column, Scoopler presents a list of such popular items for your topic: news, videos and images.

But there is more to Scoopler than just real time search.

The left column shows the most popular memes on the social web right now. You also get a list of your recent searches, so you can easily juggle between search terms.

Whenever you see something you like on Scoopler, you can share it on Twitter, Facebook, Digg, and other services using the “share” button. It appears when you hover over content.

Is it any good?

There are lots of services out there that provide tools for monitoring trends or topics. However, many of these only index Twitter and there is a lot of additional information to be had from following sources like Delicious and Dig, like Scoopler does.

That being said, the search results are thoroughly dominated by Twitter. I would love to see more results from other sources.

Instead of just showing the top trending words or hash tags, Scoopler shows the actual headline so you get a glimpse at the story behind the trend. This adds a lot of valuable information.

You don’t have to leave the search results to check out a video, link or image. When you press the “peek” button which appears next to content when you hover over it, the content opens in a preview window in. This is very convenient.

I like Scoopler. It is easy to use and sufficiently powerful to be a useful tool for most information professionals even though it is not so advanced as to be intimidating to regular web searchers.