Search Engines: Social Search Engines
Microsoft adds Reddit data to Bing search results, Power BI analytics tool
Reddit posts will appear in Bing's search results, and its data will be piped into Power BI for marketers to track brand-related...
Facebook Local is the social network’s stab at Yelp, Foursquare
Facebook’s new app lets people find nearby things to do and places to...
Pinterest opens search ads to self-serve advertisers, adds ‘autotargeting’ option
In addition to making search ads available to all advertisers, Pinterest is adding an option to automatically target related...
Pinterest now lets people zoom in on pins, has redesigned visual search icon
Users no longer have to be signed in to Pinterest to use its visual search Chrome...
How Pinterest has developed computer-vision technology to power visual search for users and brands
Pinterest has been developing computer vision technology since 2014 and is now applying it to visual search queries and ad...
Pinterest’s updated browser extension turns off-Pinterest images into search queries
Pinterest's extension will scan images on a web page to show related pins. But those visual search results won't include...
Pinterest’s Lens app turns your phone’s camera into a search bar
Pinterest is bringing search to the real world. On Wednesday, the social-network-slash-search-engine introduced Lens, a mobile app that uses the...
Everything You Need To Know About The Google-Twitter Partnership
Google and Twitter recently reached a deal that once again gave Google access to Twitter's firehose. Columnist Neil Patel summarizes what we...
Official: Twitter To Give Google Access To “Firehose” Of Tweets
It's official, Twitter confirms that it has a deal again to supply Google with access to its full stream of...
Topsy Becomes Definitive Twitter Search Engine
Social search and analytics provider Topsy announced that users can now search its index for every single tweet ever published since...
Is Being Found Part Of Your Social Media Strategy?
Successful communication is all about getting the right message in front of the right people at the right time. In the first part of this...
The Future Of SEO in a Socially Driven World
If SEO is dead, social media will be, too, in another five years. So, keep calm and tweet on. Hold that thought for a second – I can explain....
Microsoft’s ViralSearch: Search Engine For Measuring Tweets & Viral Content
VentureBeat reports Microsoft announced a new research project named ViralSearch. ViralSearch lets you search and navigate cascades of people...
Facebook’s Graph Search & YourTrove’s Social Search: 5 Questions With Jesse Emery
[Ed. note: This is the first of what will be an ongoing interview series called “5 Questions With…,” in which we’ll...
Bit.ly Releases Search API To Discover Hot Stories & Discussions
Bit.ly announced a new set of APIs named Social Data APIs. The new APIs allow you to search for top stories in real time over the Bit.ly URL...
Library Of Congress Struggling To Make A Searchable Twitter Archive
The Library of Congress is still working on plans to create a searchable archive of nearly every public tweet ever sent, but the challenges...
Introducing Trove: Already The Best Facebook Search Around & Set To Tackle Other Social Networks Next
It’s no secret that Facebook’s existing search engine is bad; that drum has been beaten to death. But you don’t have to wait...
Zuckerberg On Search: “At Some Point, We’ll Do It” & Be “Uniquely Positioned”
Waiting for a Facebook search engine? Eventually, it’ll arrive, says Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. But it might not be what you expect....
New Search Engine Attrakt Focuses On Curated Content
Ever amassed a collection of Web bookmarks on a particular subject and then wanted to search through their contents? Delicious users will be...
Social Search Engine Volunia Faces The Critics
In a first look at the social search engine Volunia, I considered the main features which differentiate Volunia from existing search engines –...