What: Collecta.com is a real-time search engine, monitoring social networks like Twitter and Facebook for status updates, as well as update streams for news sites and blogs. Updated as the mentions appear online, Collecta can do several searches at once and lets users easily see a preview of the mention within the same Web page.

How: Collecta works like a typical search engine. With every new topic, Collecta starts a new tab within the browser window, and users ...