Twitter Finally Begins Adding Search Relevancy Features

Nov 6, 2009 at 9:28am ET by Barry Schwartz

The Twitter Blog has a short blog post mentioning that they have added technology "to show higher quality results for trend queries by returning tweets that are more useful." Clearly, this is Twitter's first step in improving Twitter Search by adding relevancy and search quality factors to the search algorithm. Currently, Twitter Search returns results based on keyword match and the most recent tweet. Trending Topics is the first of Twitter's search areas to get the relevancy filter, to reduce the "noise" that Twitter Search has. We knew Twitter was working on adding relevancy factors [...]

Filed in: Top News, Twitter

Twitter Lists Goes Live

Oct 30, 2009 at 10:01am ET by Barry Schwartz

A month ago, Twitter said they would be rolling out Twitter lists. That day has finally come and almost all users can create their own lists. Lists are basically a way for Twitter users to create groups of Twitter users into categories. For example, you can find the Search Engine Land team all in one Twitter stream at twitter.com/sengineland/team. How does one create a Twitter List? The first thing you need to know is that the owner of the Twitter account can make a Twitter list in the format of twitter.com/username/listname. Only the Twitter username can define who goes into the [...]

Filed in: Twitter

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

Google & Twitter Have A Deal, Too

Oct 21, 2009 at 5:29pm ET by Matt McGee

Following hot on the heels of the Bing / Twitter partnership announced earlier today, Google has now also announced that it, too, has struck a deal with Twitter to include real-time tweets in Google's search results. "We believe that our search results and user experience will greatly benefit from the inclusion of this up-to-the-minute data, and we look forward to having a product that showcases how tweets can make search better in the coming months. That way, the next time you search for something that can be aided by a real-time observation, say, snow conditions at your favorite ski resort, [...]

Filed in: Google: Partnerships, Google: Web Search, Twitter

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