businessinsider How Social Media Will Replace Search | Single Grain Blog Remember back before Google? Back when we had Infoseek and AltaVista and all those other early search engines? Remember back when keyword stuffing on a page actually worked, to the horror of literate people everywhere? Then Google came along, with its reliance on links and anchor text and other elements, and the game changed. It’s changing again. Links worked because they were like references; users were telling Google what a page was about. The biggest indicator of this is the fact that Google and Bing are rushing to make deals with Twitter and Facebook and other darlings of social media. 8 signs of the coming Searchpocalpyse: Integrating Twitter: Google and Bing have both integrated Twitter into their search results, maintaining Twitter as a major source of information for breaking news. What is it about social media that makes it a necessary piece of any marketing plan in 2010? Social media isn’t perfect. SEO will still be important.
edutwitter Deep Web Research 2012 Bots, Blogs and News Aggregators ( is a keynote presentation that I have been delivering over the last several years, and much of my information comes from the extensive research that I have completed over the years into the "invisible" or what I like to call the "deep" web. The Deep Web covers somewhere in the vicinity of 1 trillion plus pages of information located through the world wide web in various files and formats that the current search engines on the Internet either cannot find or have difficulty accessing. The current search engines find hundreds of billions of pages at the present time of this writing. In the last several years, some of the more comprehensive search engines have written algorithms to search the deeper portions of the world wide web by attempting to find files such as .pdf, .doc, .xls, ppt, .ps. and others. This Deep Web Research 2012 report and guide is divided into the following sections: Bot Research
Guess-the-google UPDATE: Guess-the-google is temporarily offline for maintenance. Hopefully back online soon. About the game Guess-the-google is an addictive guessing game based on Google's image search. It turns the mental activity of searching into a fun, visual and engaging game where people can enjoy the challenge of being the fastest and most efficient at making that connection between search terms and their results. The game requires version 9 of the Flash player or higher to run, you can get the latest version here. I hope you enjoy the game, happy guessing! Like this? Please note: Although Guess-the-google uses images retrieved using Google's image search it is in no way associated with or endorsed by Google Inc.
Like I Need an Excuse be Twittering- now to climb the Tweeterboard » CogDogBlog Of course I find the coolest of new stuff in my twitter stream, like from Dean Shareski just know came a link to Tweeterboard- a site that provides analytics on tweeters, their activity, what they are linking to, etc. Tweeterboard is a way of looking at who is influential on Twitter based on their conversations with other Twitter users. There are other services, like Twitterposter, that base influence on how many followers you have. Tweeterboard looks at who talks to you.Tweeterboard also captures links posted to Twitter to generate a list of the most popular links.Reputation points are the way influence is measured in Tweeterboard. They’re calculated using some algorithmic mojo that resembles the link analysis algorithms used by search engines. So if you are not like Dean, who is sitting on the front page with 21 points, you can see if you scored– yep, I found I am about 6 points behind Dean: The bad things is now I know this is out there. In a way it does. I have a new web addiction.
11 Unknown Ways Of Using Google Search - Curious Mob Thinking what more is there to know about Google search? I mean its Google search after all, type whatever you want to search, press enter and everything in the world related to your topic is displayed in front of your eyes. But believe it or not the search engine has plenty of tricks up its sleeve. Here’s an overview of 11 Google Tricks That Will Change the Way You Search: 11. One well-known, simple trick while searching a phrase in quotes is that it will yield only pages with the same words in the same order as what’s in the quotes. Searching Twitter | eLearning Blog Dont Waste Your Time So, it has come to this. I wanted to find some tweets I made a while ago; I can’t remember when but I can remember it was a re-tweet of someone else’s work. I asked around last night on Twitter and had some good replies and these are a selection of the options I have found and been directed to. And here comes the conundrum … do I keep clicking the ‘More’ button at the page of my latest tweets to go back and back through my tweets, or do I use another service to find what I’m after? Enter the choices … some are for searching Twitter, others are to backup your Twitter data. Twitter Search Search Twitter with the proper and official search tool, but it won’t go back very far or take into account your messages or favourites (like other services do). Tweetake Using the Twitter API you can backup a variety of your own data, from followers, favorites, DMs, friends, tweets, or just plain everything! SnapBird TweetBackup Google Site Search
How Twitter works in theory It is said that an economist is someone who sees something that works in practice and wonders whether it works in theory. Twitter clearly works in practice - and if you want practical advice, watch Laura Fitton's Tech talk at Google, or read her Twitter for Dummies. I've learned a lot from talking to her and others about this phenomenon, and I wanted to write about some theories that help me understand it. Flow At it heart Twitter is a flow - it doesn't present an unread count of messages, just a list of recent ones, so you don't have email's inbox problem - the implicit pressure to turn bold things plain and get that unread number down. Faces Indeed, what you see are the faces of people you know with the notes they wrote next to them. Phatic The key to Twitter is that it is phatic - full of social gestures that are like apes grooming each other. Following Historically, web fora were open to anyone, leading to the tragedy of the comments, where annoying people showed up and spoiled things.