Tag Archives: Search

It’s a Google Week in a Google World

By John Furnari | Published: December 9, 2009
Even in this fast paced world (wide web) it’s mind-blowing sometimes what can happen over the course of just a few days. I was traveling throughout the weekend - first having the honor of helping put together a legendary night of music with Ian McCulloch of Echo and the Bunnymen, and then spending quality time discussing [...]
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Wordpress Carries the Blog Torch Into Real-Time Search

By John Furnari | Published: September 8, 2009
Yesterday Wordpress announced their enabling of the RSS Cloud specification on all post feeds (and forthcoming on comment feeds). Today we turned on support for all 7.5 million blogs on WordPress.com something called RSS Cloud, which is basically a way for people to get push notification that your feed has updated. Why is this important? Right now [...]
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Twitter “Discovery Engine”

By tristan | Published: April 6, 2009
I was reading a post by Robin Wauters on Tech Crunch (http://www.techcrunch.com) called “Twitter Confirms and Details New Discovery Engine”. The article was talking about Twitter’s soon to be newest feature called “Twitter Discovery”, a new search engine integrated within Twitter giving users the option to search for topics within their network and save results. [...]
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Twitter Vs. Google…What?

By wils | Published: March 18, 2009
As an intern here at bigMETHOD, I’ve read all the articles about the social media battlefield. Twitter Vs. Facebook, Facebook Vs. Myspace. All that jazz. But the other day, I opened my inbox to find an article from AD Age Digital bearing the title: Twitter: We Can Do What Google Can’t. Intrigued, I started to read. [...]
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YouTube search advertising

By Greg Cargill | Published: November 13, 2008
YouTube, like all of the extremely popular social web destinations, is quite the strange beast. They have immense amounts of traffic, brand recognition, and… bandwidth costs (Online Video: Where’s The Money?). The search for a solution to monetize the popularity of this site has now turned to, well, search. Google/YouTube recently started offering featured video [...]
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