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 [...]
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Wikia Search To Close Up Shop
Mar 31, 2009 at 1:06pm ET by Barry Schwartz
News.com reports that Wikia Search is giving up and closing up shop. Search Wikia launched an alpha release in January 2008, where Chris Sherman gave it a poor review.
Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikia, told News.com "It was going to take at least an another year to two before it's usable by the public, and we can't afford that right now." Due to the economy and the need to get to "profitability" right now, Wikia Search needs to shut down. Two full-time employees will be out of a job due to the decision. Wales said that Wikia Search only had 10,000 unique users a month over the past six mo [...]
Filed in: Search Engines: Answer Search Engines, Search Engines: Search Wikia, Search Engines: Social Search Engines, Search Engines: Wikipedia
Twitter Search: Not Your Friend If You Tweet Something Bad
Mar 18, 2009 at 9:44am ET by Barry Schwartz
Did you Twitter something embarrassing? Don't think deleting your tweet or locking your Twitter feed means what you said goes away. Twitter Search still makes it available, which one job applicant may have found to their loss.
Hutch Carpenter covers how one Twitter user named TheConnor said on Twitter that Cisco offered them a job. But the full message is what may have gotten this person in trouble:
Cisco just offered me a job! Now I have to weigh the utility of a fatty paycheck against the daily commute to San Jose and hating the work.
Soon after, Tim Levad, Business Development Manager [...]
Filed in: Search Engines: Social Search Engines, Search Engines: Twitter, Social Media Marketing
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