Want to get the real time updates on a particular topic? Want to see who talked about your product or service, recently? Try Social Mention, a new and interesting social media search engine that searches user-generated content such as blogs, comments, bookmarks, events, news, videos, and micro-blogging services for a given keyword or phrase.

To use this social search engine, just enter your keyword or search phrase in the search field and hit the search button. Within seconds it will collect the latest conversations or mentions of your search term in a number of social media sources and will present the results in the form of a single stream.

The social media sources that SocialMention uses to collect data includes Google blog search, Digg, Twitter, YouTube, Delicious, FriendFeed, Flickr, Blinklist, Reddit, Pownce, Technorati, Wordpress, Yahoo, PhotoBucket, Bloglines and a number of other popular services that contains user-generated content.

SocialMention also provides a feed API for developers to access search results in a number of formats like RSS, JSON, and KML. So, you can easily use their web-based search results in news reader, blogs or even on your own application.

So, SocialMention is a cool web application to scan the user-generated contents in different social media sources. It is fast and will save a good amout of your time. Give it a try!