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Search public posts, profiles, hashtags and videos across every major social platform in one place.
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Social Search is a free search engine for public social media content. Type a keyword, brand, hashtag or username and it finds posts, profiles, videos and discussions that search engines have indexed across Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, YouTube, Reddit, X, LinkedIn, Pinterest and Threads, all in one place.
Instead of searching each app one by one, you run one search and filter the results by platform, content type, date, language and location. It is useful for marketers, local businesses, agencies, researchers and creators who want to see what people are publicly saying about a topic, a brand or a place.
The tool writes the advanced search operators for you. You never need to know syntax like site:, inurl: or OR groups, although you can see the exact query behind every search.
You choose what to find and where. The tool turns your choices into a precise search engine query, runs it against a public web index and labels every result with its platform and content type.
Seven modes cover the most common social research tasks, from finding a creator's profile to tracking what people say about a competitor.
Select one platform for the most precise results. When a single platform is selected, the tool also targets its URL structure, so "Videos" on Instagram means reels and "Profiles" on TikTok means @accounts.
Every result links to the original page, so you can open the post, profile or video on the platform itself and copy its link in one click.
Some networks limit what search engines can index. X, Facebook and LinkedIn show only part of their public content to crawlers, while YouTube, Reddit and Pinterest are indexed much more fully.
Because YouTube is indexed so thoroughly, it is usually the easiest platform to win visibility on. If you publish there, the YouTube Video Rank Checker shows where your videos currently rank.
Add a country, state or city to find local conversations, creators and businesses. The location is used as a search signal: the tool looks for posts that mention the place and boosts results for the selected country.
Results are labeled "Location match" when the place appears in the title and "Location mentioned" when it appears in the text. Social platforms do not share where a post was published, so these labels describe the text of the result, not verified geolocation.
Tip for local businesses: combine your city with your niche (for example "dentist" plus "Tampa") to see which local accounts and topics get attention in your market.
Pick a niche such as restaurants, real estate, lawyers, fitness or SaaS and the tool adds related terms automatically, so you catch posts that say "realtor" or "homes for sale" as well as "real estate".
You can also type your own niche. Niche plus location is the fastest way to map local influencers, partner businesses and common customer questions in a market.
Social platforms are now where a lot of searching starts, so the phrases people use on them are the phrases worth ranking for. The point of a search like this is not the list of posts, it is the language, the questions and the gaps you can see in it.
The same questions increasingly get answered by AI assistants rather than a list of links, and being quoted there depends on how your pages are written and structured. The AI Search Readiness Checker tests a page for that, and our social media marketing team can turn what you find here into content that earns the mention.
Social Search only finds public content that search engines have indexed. It does not log in to any platform, bypass login walls, access private accounts or show follower counts it cannot verify.
Yes. Social Search is free and does not require an account. You can run searches, filter results and open the original posts without signing up.
Type your keyword, leave the platform filter on "All" and press Search. The tool searches publicly indexed content from Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, YouTube, Reddit, X, LinkedIn, Pinterest and Threads in one query and labels each result with its platform.
You can find public Instagram and TikTok posts, reels and profiles that search engines have indexed without logging in. Content that requires a login, private accounts and very recent posts may not appear.
Open Advanced search, choose a country and enter a city or state. The tool looks for posts that mention that place and boosts results for the country. Results show "Location match" or "Location mentioned" based on the text, because platforms do not publish where a post was created.
Choose the Hashtags mode and type up to three hashtags. The tool finds indexed posts that use them and labels each result with its platform.
Social Search relies on what search engines have indexed. Platforms such as X, Facebook and LinkedIn restrict crawling, and new posts can take days to be indexed. Try a broader keyword, select a single platform, or search again in a few days.
No. Searches are not stored on our server. Your recent searches are kept only in your browser's local storage so you can repeat them, and you can clear them with one click.
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