Google has updated its ranking tracking technology to determine the quality of tweets as part of its new incorporation of real time results. (more…)

It has been on the cards for a while and has been a subject often talked about in the same breath with the battle of the search engines. However Google have now put live realtime search capability in their search engine and with it given themselves a massive competitive advantage as well. (more…)

As both Google and Bing took massive steps forward in the integration of real time search with Google’s integration of Twitter and Bing’s partnership with both Facebook and Twitter, it has been a bit quiet from another of the major search engines – Yahoo. (more…)

Google have taken a big step in real time search by displaying its ‘hot tends’ data in the search results. People who are searching for popular topics will see the trending data at the bottom of the search results page. The little snippet is said to “provide you with search results as you’d want but also extra meta data on how popular the search is and whether it has peaked in interest”. (more…)

Social networking site Facebook has recently announced the purchase of social media firm Friendfeed for a reported £30.3m. (more…)

Bit.ly - the popular URL shortening service - have plans to launch a real-time news service by compiling the most popular of the millions of links it processes each day. (more…)

We have written a lot about real time search of late however we all feel that it is an area of great interest. We are quite possibly witnessing the beginning of something that will change  online marketing as we have grwon to know it… (more…)

Interesting news to arise from Nielsen Online is that social networking is continuing to increase. Statistics show that the number of minute’s users spent on social networking sites increased by 82% since May 2008.

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