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Geo-Mapping Your Way to That Dream Home [Infographic]

  • June 25th, 2013 by Phil
Now that social media is being adopted by everyone from the corporate board room to the owner of the local pet shop, the next generation of fully social tools and utilities will surely be full mobile. Smartphone use continues to grow with 200 million plus device users in the US alone. One novel but very useful way some demographics user… Read more

Why Social Media Isn’t Going to be Powering Search Engines

  • June 7th, 2011 by SEM Contributor
Since Google announced that they had been using social signals from sites like Twitter and Facebook as a ranking factor, there has been a lot of buzz involving using social media to improve ranking positions. Some blogs even tested this and proved that social signals (tweets in this case) can influence rank. It’s pretty clear then that despite the fact… Read more

Twitter.com/Search versus Search.Twitter.com – How Are They Different

  • March 18th, 2011 by Ann Smarty
Twitter search can be accessed in two ways: From your profile (at twitter.com/#!/search) From the subdomain at search.twitter.com (formerly known as Summize) While being powered by the same engine, these two may provide slightly different results: twitter.com/search search.twitter.com People Search Option Yes No Promoted Tweets Yes No* Top tweets Yes (called “Top Tweet”) Yes (signed as “XX+ Recent Tweets) The Read more

Go Social – Social Media Generates Effective Signals That Will Boost Search Engine Rankings

  • December 20th, 2010 by Cijo Abraham Mani
Does your company have a social media presence ? If not, it is time that you should build up one! Google and Bing has made it clear that social signals are now used as a ranking factor. Social media signals do had its own priority in search long back as I have been doing extensive research on the same and… Read more

Social Search Beyond Limits – Discover Social Content with Yahoo! KPost

  • December 8th, 2010 by Cijo Abraham Mani
Yahoo has launched its latest product idea “Yahoo! KPost” in Hong Kong and Korea. From now on Yahoo users in Hong Kong and Korea can use KPost to share and find up-to-date information through KPost. Yahoo KPost combines both search and social media results and give users a better way to find the latest updates as they search for relevant… Read more