Marchex Releases Powerful SMB Reputation Management Tool With “Search Inside”
Oct 13, 2009 at 9:14am ET by Greg Sterling
Consumers care about online reviews; small businesses (SMBs) care about what's being said about them online. Most small businesses that are aware of the phenomenon of online reviews (and care) try to monitor those reviews by using a search engine or alerts with their business name. They also visit specific sites like Yelp or Citysearch to see what's being said about them. It's an awkward process that is time consuming, but increasingly necessary.
Large corporations have had various "buzz tracking" tools at their disposal to monitor "brand chatter" but these have not been available for SMBs. [...]
Filed in: Search Engines: Buzz Search Engines, Search Engines: Maps & Local Search Engines, Search Engines: Other Search Engines, Search Engines: Word Of Mouth & Buzz Search Engines
Twitter Gets More Serious About Search
Aug 17, 2009 at 11:30am ET by Greg Sterling
We recently saw Twitter change the look of its public homepage to make it look more like a search engine. And last week we found out that Twitter's new search guru is Doug Cook, who was formerly of Yahoo and inktomi. Cook also built a wine search engine called Able Grape as a kind of labor of love.
Twitter is now effectively competing in search with not only the major players but all the third parties that are using the site's API as the backbone of their own engines. [...]
Filed in: Search Engines: Buzz Search Engines, Search Engines: Real Time Search, Twitter
FriendFeed Joins The Real-Time Search Race
Jul 2, 2009 at 7:28pm ET by Matt McGee
Add FriendFeed to the long and growing list of players who are trying to win the race for comprehensive and quick real-time search. FriendFeed has always had a real-time element -- the ability to track social activities almost as they happen. But the company has announced the addition of real-time search today.
If you've used search.twitter.com, you'll be familiar with FriendFeed's real-time search -- the interface is almost exactly the same. One difference that FriendFeed is quick to point out is that its results update automatically and scroll down the page, without the need to click [...]
Filed in: Search Engines: Buzz Search Engines, Search Engines: Word Of Mouth & Buzz Search Engines
Larry Page Embraces “Real-Time” Search
May 20, 2009 at 11:56am ET by Greg Sterling
There's a much longer post to be written on Google and so-called "real-time" search. Twitter is both more and less than a search engine, but there are lots of third parties doing search-like things around the Twitter data. However, yesterday at an event in London, Loic Le Meur elicited this response from Google co-founder Larry Page after a question about Twitter:
"I have always thought we needed to index the web every second to allow real time search. At first, my team laughed and did not believe me. Now they know they have to do it. Not everybody needs sub-second indexing but people are get [...]
Filed in: Google: General, Google: Outside US, Search Engines: Buzz Search Engines, Twitter
OneRiot Offers Twitter Search … With a Twist
Apr 2, 2009 at 12:00pm ET by Matt McGee
Whenever the subject of real-time search and/or Twitter search comes up, someone inevitably argues that there's too much noise to make it worthwhile; there are too many random conversations and meaningless chatter to find anything of value. It's a generally fair argument. But one company thinks it's found a way to cut through some of that noise.
OneRiot, a real-time search engine for web and video content, has launched a new Twitter search engine with a unique angle: Rather than focus on what people are saying, the search engine focuses on the web pages people are linking to.
"Our approa [...]
Filed in: Search Engines: Buzz Search Engines, Search Engines: Social Search Engines, Search Engines: Word Of Mouth & Buzz Search Engines, Twitter
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