Posts Tagged ‘twitter’

There’s no question that location is playing an increasingly great role in how people obtain and share information. We recently looked at where location fits into the SEO equation. Google has its own location-sharing service Google Latitude that has been somewhat overshadowed lately by services like FourSquare, Gowalla, and of course Twitter and Facebook, but Google recently said Latitude has 3 …

Sunday, May 16th, 2010 at 07:34 | 0 comments

Google has launched a new Labs project called Google Follow Finder . It’s designed to help you expand your Twitter network. To use Google Follow Finder, you can enter your Twitter account name and see a list of people Google thinks you might be interested in following (our own Twellow has a helpful suggestion feature too). Google’s tool will also let you enter other people’s Twitter names …

Friday, April 16th, 2010 at 15:46 | 0 comments

Google has launched a new Labs project called Google Follow Finder . It’s designed to help you expand your Twitter network. To use Google Follow Finder, you can enter your Twitter account name and see a list of people Google thinks you might be interested in following (our own Twellow has a helpful suggestion feature too). Google’s tool will also let you enter other people’s Twitter names …

Friday, April 16th, 2010 at 15:46 | 0 comments

People who are Facebook fans and Twitter followers of a brand are more likely to buy the brand’s product or recommend it to a friend, according to a new study by Chadwick Martin Bailey and iModerate Research Technologies. The study of 1,500 consumers found that 60 percent of Facebook fans and 79 percent of Twitter followers are more likely to recommend those brands since becoming a fan or follower…

Friday, March 19th, 2010 at 17:11 | 0 comments

Google announced via Twitter this week, that public status updates from Facebook are now included in the search engine’s real-time search feature. That means the largest social network in the world is getting play in Google’s real-time search alongside Twitter, MySpace, and others, and these real-time results are often featured prominently on the first…

Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010 at 21:31 | 0 comments

The first Matt Cutts Answers Questions About Google video of the year has been posted, and in it Matt addresses links from Twitter and Facebook, after talking about his shaved head again. Specifically, the submitted question he answers is: Links from relevant and important sites have always been a great way to get traffic & acceptance for a website. How do you rate links from new platforms like…

Tuesday, January 19th, 2010 at 12:06 | 0 comments

The first Matt Cutts Answers Questions About Google video of the year has been posted, and in it Matt addresses links from Twitter and Facebook, after talking about his shaved head again. Specifically, the submitted question he answers is: Links from relevant and important sites have always been a great way to get traffic & acceptance…

Tuesday, January 19th, 2010 at 12:06 | 0 comments

Its that time of the year when we get to see annual reports and figures, its the end of the year. Google recently released a whole bunch of data, which shows the most popular trending searches of 2009, which is as predicted, very interesting. The search trends are categorized into various brackets. And there are some very obvious …

Thursday, January 14th, 2010 at 08:33 | 0 comments

Newsflashr.com launched a new type of search engine for news stories today. Users are prompted to enter keywords and the search results are polled and displayed in real-time from many of the leading news services such as MSN Live, Ask Big News, Google News, Yahoo News, MSNBC, Digg and Twitter to name a few. New News Search Engine Newsflashr

Thursday, January 14th, 2010 at 08:33 | 0 comments

As you have no doubt heard by now, actress Brittany Murphy tragically passed away over the weekend. As saddening as that news was for many, people wanted information about it. As with any other celebrity death or big news event, people scrambled to find updates. This need for fresh info is really where real-time search has its greatest potential. Google has only recently begun showing “real-time” results…

Thursday, January 14th, 2010 at 08:33 | 0 comments