Yahoo Confirms Real-Time Search Test
Nov 3, 2009 at 6:54pm ET by Matt McGee
Yahoo has confirmed the recent rumors that it will test a real-time search feature in its search results.
According to the Wall Street Journal, Yahoo will run a test "in the coming days" with OneRiot, a real-time search engine that focuses on links and content from Twitter and other social media sources. PaidContent reports that Yahoo will also be running real-time search tests with other players, too. (See Danny Sullivan's What Is Real Time Search? Definitions & Players for more background on possible partners.)
Yahoo will conduct its real-time search testing on a limited set of qu [...]
Filed in: Search Engines: Real Time Search, Yahoo: Search
Outside.in Expands Its Hyperlocal Search Capabilities
Oct 30, 2009 at 2:26pm ET by Matt McGee
While real-time search gets all the attention these days, there's also increased interest in hyperlocal search. Where real-time search answers What's happening right now?, hyperlocal search answers the question, What's happening right here? It's like local search on steroids, you could say.
Outside.in has, for several years, been somewhat like a clearinghouse of hyperlocal information and services -- collecting and publishing local news feeds, and providing tools for local bloggers, for example.
With its recent relaunch, Outside.in has placed itself squarely in the realm of hyperlocal se [...]
Filed in: Search Engines: Maps & Local Search Engines, Top News
Flickr Adds People Tagging
Oct 22, 2009 at 9:30am ET by Barry Schwartz
Flickr, the popular photo sharing site, has added Facebook-like people tagging. The purpose behind people tagging is to easily tell people when you upload a picture that includes them. In short, it is a fun way to make your pictures more social and have discussions around your photos. Let me show you how it works.
For example, the picture I took of Danny Sullivan with (former Microsoft's) Kevin Johnson at a past SMX conference was a nice photo of Danny to tag. I click on the "add person" link on the right side of the page and begin entering in Danny's name. Since Danny is a contact of [...]
Filed in: Search Engines: Photo & Image Search, Yahoo: Flickr
Pew: Almost 20 Percent of Internet Users Update Status With Twitter (Or Other Social Net)
Oct 22, 2009 at 9:18am ET by Greg Sterling
Already widely reported from yesterday the Pew Internet & American Life almost 20 percent of US Internet users are on Twitter or updating their status with another social network: LinkedIn, MySpace or Facebook. According to the report:
Some 19% of internet users now say they use Twitter or another service to share updates about themselves, or to see updates about others. This represents a significant increase over previous surveys in December 2008 and April 2009, when 11% of internet users said they use a status-update service.
Three groups of internet users are mainly responsible for [...]
Filed in: Search Engines: Social Search Engines, Stats: General, Twitter
Google Social Search Is Coming & More On Google-Twitter
Oct 21, 2009 at 8:02pm ET by Danny Sullivan
Google's Marissa Mayer has announced at the Web 2.0 Summit that Google Social Search will be launching in the coming weeks. I've seen an early release of it. It's way cool. Below, what details we have now about this plus some follow up on today's Google-Twitter search deal that was announced.
NOTE: Google Social Search is now live. See our Google Social Search Launches, Gives Results From Your Trusted “Social Circle” post.
I'm in a bind because I can't say more about the product than what Mayer released today. I wasn't able to make it to Web 2.0 nor were her remarks on the product br [...]
Filed in: Features: Analysis, Google: Social Search, Search Engines: Social Search Engines, Top News, Twitter
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