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

Aardvark Revamps Site, Becomes “Social Search Engine”

Oct 14, 2009 at 11:16am ET by Greg Sterling

Aardvark has redesigned its site and repositioned somewhat as a "social search engine." The site can be accessed directly, via IM, Twitter and the iPhone. You can also sign in using Facebook Connect, which sends your activity on Aardvark back to your news feed on Facebook. What Aardvark is trying to do is not new -- there have been Q&A sites for some time -- but it's trying to execute as a better version of the concept of peer-to-peer advice or answers. Once could also call this "human powered search." Services like kgb and ChaCha also try to do something similar but with trained "guide [...]

Filed in: Features: General, Search Engines: Social Search Engines, Top News

New StumbleUpon Adds Search, Social Elements

Oct 9, 2009 at 4:02pm ET by Matt McGee

StumbleUpon wants to be a search engine. Kind of. It also wants to be more like Twitter and Facebook. Kind of. Better search and better social elements are the two cornerstones of StumbleUpon's new web site, which was announced this week and will roll out to all during the next month. There's no doubt the site looks better. Beyond the cleaner layout, StumbleUpon says its new features include: search for sites within your own favorites search your friend's favorites improved friend search capabilities improved site navigation improved navigation within user profiles There a [...]

Filed in: Search Engines: Social Search Engines, Search Engines: StumbleUpon

Will Social Nets Replace Search For Content Discovery?

Oct 6, 2009 at 8:56am ET by Greg Sterling

Nielsen offers a blog post that shows the various ways that people discover content online. Search is at the top, followed by "portals" (which feature search boxes); at the other end are blogs and social networks. However Nielsen argues that certain categories of people are increasingly social media tools as content discovery sources: We saw the power of opinions posted online in our global study earlier this year about trust in advertising, and the point came up again in our recent findings. Social media is becoming a core product research channel. Almost 15 percent of Socializers most trust [...]

Filed in: Google: General, Microsoft: Bing, Search Engines: Social Search Engines, Search Engines: Word Of Mouth & Buzz Search Engines

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