Google Blog Search Sees Twitter Trends & Raises With Blog Search ‘Hot Queries’

Jul 2, 2009 at 3:52pm ET by Matt McGee

A lot of the innovation in search these days is all about What's happening right now? Twitter is the poster child where real-time search is concerned, and despite its ongoing spam problem, Twitter Trends has become one of the primary places to get a snapshot of what's happening now. Google Blog Search is getting in the game with its announcement today of "Hot Queries," a new addition that appears in the upper right corner of the Google Blog Search home page. It shows 10 queries that are "happening now" -- or, "currently popular" in Google's words -- in Blog Search. What we don't know is if [...]

Filed in: Google: Blog Search

Quietly, Google Updates Its Blog Search Algorithm

May 15, 2009 at 2:33am ET by Matt McGee

There's no official announcement (yet), but Google tells Search Engine Land that it's made several improvements under the hood of Google Blog Search. In an email conversation, Google's Jeremy Hylton -- head of the search quality group in Google's New York office -- explained how the changes impact the "clusters" of stories that appear on the blog search home page. "We're doing a better job of choosing the blog posts to include in clusters," Hylton says. "We're also working on changes to expand the number of posts we consider for clustering." One of the algorithmic changes is aimed at [...]

Filed in: Features: General, Google: Blog Search, Top News

Google To ‘Integrate’ Microblogging?

May 8, 2009 at 3:52pm ET by Matt McGee

While Twitter is looking at ways to be more search-ey, Google is apparently thinking about ways to be more microbloggy. Buried in a Reuters article about Google's shareholders meeting yesterday is this paragraph about the company's interest in the social web: "Company executives who appeared alongside Schmidt at the media briefing said Google was looking at ways to generate money from the surge of social networking activity on the Internet, as well as at ways of integrating microblogging capabilities, such as those popularized by Twitter, into its search product." (emphasis is mine) I [...]

Filed in: Google: Blog Search, Search Engines: Twitter

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