Archive for the search Tag

Search and filter tweets using Friendfeed advanced search

I’ve never been fond of the search engine on Twitter, not the one on search.twitter.com anyway. I have found the ones build on it’s API much friendlier and more intuitive, such as Twitterfall and the integration in Tweetdeck. But none of them work for finding old tweets. Google is not much help either, unless you know how to create your
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Search Options: Google adds more intuitive search tools, ‘takes on Twitter’

It’s often said that Twitter’s big advantage over Google is its ability to allow you to conduct ‘real time search’ – if an event is happening right now, you don’t search Google, you search Twitter. But today Google has announced a series of features that, while still not offering real time search, take it just that bit closer. For me
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The services of the ‘semantic web’

Many of the services that are being developed as part of the ‘semantic web’ are necessarily works in progress, but they all contribute to extending the success of this burgeoning area of technology. There are plenty more popping up all the time, but for the purposes of this post I have loosely grouped some prominent sites into specialities – social
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The next step to the ‘semantic web’

There are billions of pages of unsorted and unclassified information online, which make up millions of terabytes of data with almost no organisation.  It is not necessarily true that some of this information is valuable whilst some is worthless, that’s just a judgement for who desires it.  At the moment, the most common way to access any information is through
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Do Daily Express search suggestions reveal editorial agenda?

The search suggestions at Express.co.uk give a revealing insight into either what readers are searching for – or what the Express wants them to be interested in.

10 ways to find people on Twitter

This is something of a bonus following on from my previous beginner’s guide to Twitter. I didn’t have time to deliver this on Monday, but the following is a quick outline of various strategies for finding people of interest on Twitter. 10 ways to find people on Twitter View more presentations from Paul Bradshaw. (tags: twitter paulbradshaw)

Johnston Press Digital Publishing’s invisibility in Google News

Malcolm Coles asks a reasonable question of Johnston Press Digital Publishing: have they looked at their own pages in Google News? It seems a reliance on javascript is making their pages invisible to search engines.

Will alternative voices get pushed off Google’s first page of results?

That’s the question bumping around my mind after reading this post at SEObook.com: “if you are not an AdWords advertiser, are not in universal search verticals (like news and video), and are not wikipedia, then you don’t have many organic search results that you can rank for on the first page.” The image makes it clearer: In some ways, blogs
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