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May. 7, 2008 at 10:17am by Danny Sullivan
From My Inbox: Some Search Tools To Check Out
After Yahoo-Microsoft madness, there's been a bit of a lull so I'm cleaning out my inbox and wanted to mention a few items that might be of interest. Below, a way to quickly search blogs & social media sites all at once, a new video search tool, a study into...
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Apr. 25, 2008 at 8:06pm by Danny Sullivan
SMX Social: Just What Did Calacanis Say About SEO & More Recaps
At our SMX Social Media Marketing conference this week, we had a great panel on the future of human powered search. Jason Calacanis of Mahalo, Jimmy Wales of Wikia Search, and Steven Marder of Eurekster all took part. Jason had some remarks on SEO that set off the usual wave...
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Apr. 23, 2008 at 12:31pm by Danny Sullivan
SMX Social: Mahalo To Do Microformats, Search Wikia Adds Alpha 0.2 Features & More
News from the first day of our SMX Social Media Marketing conference. Mahalo is now doing microformats as a way to enhance its search results and allow local businesses to be added to your address book. Wikia Search has gone to "Alpha 0.2" with new features. And other conference coverage,...
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Apr. 22, 2008 at 1:48pm by Greg Sterling
Former Googlers Ready Mechanical Zoo Social Recommendations Engine
CNET writes about a new "stealth startup" from former Google News product manager Nathan Stoll. The new site "Mechanical Zoo" is reportedly in alpha right now. Here's how CNET's Stefanie Olson describes its intended function:...
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Apr. 17, 2008 at 9:43am by Greg Sterling
Will Social Networking Kill Search?
A provocative headline and somewhat less provocative article in Popular Mechanics argues that social networking will kill search "as we know it."...
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Apr. 8, 2008 at 5:41pm by Muhammad Saleem
Why Mixx Hasn't Gotten The Following It Deserves - Yet
Mixx, a social media submission site, is a newcomer on the scene, so it understandably will take a while for it to catch up with older sites like Digg, Propeller, Reddit, and StumbleUpon. That said, this article looks at the current state of Mixx and the potential future of...
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Mar. 21, 2008 at 9:49am by Greg Sterling
LinkedIn Adds New Company Directory
LinkedIn, with help from BusinessWeek's CapitalIQ, has added a company directory and related factual information to its business network. It's not easy to get to the company directory, which is only accessible to LinkedIn users at the moment. One can't simply go to the LinkedIn search box and type a...
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Mar. 13, 2008 at 8:31am by Greg Sterling
In Unexpected Move, AOL Buys Social Network Bebo For $850 Million
In a somewhat surprising move, given the speculation surrounding AOL and its future, the company has acquired number three social network Bebo for $850 million in cash. Bebo has a reported 40 million unique users on a global basis. AOL says in its press release, "Together with its AIM and...
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Feb. 26, 2008 at 1:40am by Danny Sullivan
Yahoo Buzz Launches: Votes, Searches, & Emails Used To Rank News
As expected, Yahoo Buzz has now launched -- a site where "buzz-worthy" news articles are highlighted based on user votes, searching activity, and email sharing. Hot stories on Buzz may also get featured on the Yahoo home page, an added incentive to get publishers considering the program....
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Feb. 8, 2008 at 7:49am by Greg Sterling
Rumor: Google To Acquire Plaxo
Wired says that Google is rumored to be buying Plaxo for roughly $200 million. The company was founded in 2001 as a tool to manage contacts and users' email address books ("your address book for life"). Its aggressive customer acquisition strategy (read: spam) alienated many would-be users. Plaxo has been...
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Jan. 31, 2008 at 12:13pm by Danny Sullivan
Google's Marissa Mayer On Social Search / Search 4.0
VentureBeat has a nice Q&A with Google's Marissa Mayer on how the search engine is considering using social data to improve its search results -- what I've described as "Search 4.0" as a generational jump in my Search 3.0 article from earlier this year. Some highlights below:...
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Jan. 7, 2008 at 9:33am by Barry Schwartz
Watch The Techmeme Home Page In Fast-Forward
I am a huge fan of Techmeme, and I always thought it was interesting to watch the Techmeme home page change throughout the day. Amit at Digital Inspiration has actually captured 50 hours of the Techmeme home page and then posted a video of it playing those 50 hours in...
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Jan. 6, 2008 at 12:26am by Vanessa Fox
Mahalo Adds More Social Features
Mahalo has just launched several new features that entwine the human-powered search engine even further into social networking and online community building. The Mahalo Follow toolbar now enables you to post links to Delicious, Ma.gnolia, Mahalo Social, and Twitter with the click of one button. The sidebar now displays quick...
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Dec. 10, 2007 at 9:52am by Greg Sterling
LinkedIn Redesigns, Adds Features
LinkedIn has responded to the challenge of Facebook today by joining OpenSocial and launching its developer platform as well as a new look (still to come) and host of new features. They're described in some detail on VentureBeat. The design changes include a new homepage, an emphasis on activity feeds,...
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Dec. 4, 2007 at 10:23am by Greg Sterling
Eurekster Emerges From Beta A Different Product Than When It Started
Eurekster started life in 2004 as a "personalized search engine" for consumers. How ahead of its time the company was. The idea was to provide a layer of "social search" results on top of the general results. In late 2004 the company announced a partnership with Friendster, then the hot...
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Nov. 30, 2007 at 9:29am by Barry Schwartz
Danny Sullivan & Rand Fishkin Talk About Search Ads Vs. Facebook Ads
Forget Facebook. Search Ads Are the Revolution from Danny Sullivan's monthly AdAge column talks about how search ads compare to Facebook's ads. That column is the topic in this week's SEOmoz's Whiteboard Friday. Danny sat down with Rand Fishkin at SEOmoz's office in Seattle to create the following video. Enjoy!...
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Nov. 29, 2007 at 9:25am by Barry Schwartz
Google Like/Don't Like: Move Results Up, Hide Them Or Suggest Your Own
Google has rolled out a new experimental feature that allows anyone to alter search results in the way they like. You can move good results higher, hide ones you think are bad and suggest your own....
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Nov. 5, 2007 at 9:42am by Barry Schwartz
SelfServe HyperTargeting Ads From MySpace Launching Today
MySpace To Announce Self-Serve Hyper Targeted Advertising Network from TechCrunch reports MySpace is announcing a new ad platform today at adTech. The new ad platform will enable advertisers to target ads to users based on geography, demographics, and user interests. The ad platform seems to be named SelfServe HyperTargeting and...
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Nov. 5, 2007 at 9:10am by Barry Schwartz
Check Out My Yahoo Kickstart Profile & Get Yours
Today, Yahoo launched their new social networking site geared towards college students and alumni named Kickstart. We first wrote about it over here, where we described that this service will help college students looking for jobs connect with alumni who already have jobs and might be hiring. There is more...
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Nov. 2, 2007 at 8:44am by Barry Schwartz
New York Times Adds BlogRunner To Technology Section
The New York Times’ Blogrunner—A Techmeme Killer? from TechCrunch shows that the New York Times has added BlogRunner headlines on the Technology main page. BlogRunner is very similar to Techmeme, where the system aggregates top news, and automatically tracks the discussion from around the web via linkage data. The New...
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Oct. 22, 2007 at 9:26am by Barry Schwartz
Getting On Top Of Techmeme
Robert Scoble has posted about two interesting videos he did about reverse engineering Techmeme. The two videos are Part I and Part II, with the first being about 6 minutes long and the second being about 25 minutes long. Robert explains how he feels Techmeme works and how you can...
