Tag Archives: social search

Japanese obsessions continue

By Dhiren | Published: June 28, 2009
Most people that know me well know that I have a growing obsession with Japanese stuff. Tumblr have recently re-jigged their search functionality and now you get this lovely digital—and rather square—collage for each and every search result. We like! One of my sweet finds are below, it’s a diagram detailing how the smooth criminal [...]
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Social Search usage increases

By Dhiren | Published: May 31, 2009
I was reading a good post today on Steve Rubel’s blog about Social Search, and how Twitter Search is gaining a sharp increase in usage. I’ve written about Social Search on a number of occasions, but Steve’s post got me thinking… So far Twitter Search ranks information purely on temporal factors; in comparison Google ranks [...]
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What happened to Yahoo?

By Dhiren | Published: March 26, 2009
I was just playing about with my analytics account and I started to look at my top 10 referrers in a bit more detail. What has happened to Yahoo? Last.fm, Flickr, Twitter and LinkedIn all drive more traffic to my blog than Yahoo does. A report by Search Engine Land discusses how Yahoo and Microsoft [...]
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Google going Social

By Dhiren | Published: December 31, 2008
I suppose none of us have been oblivious to the birth of Google Search Wiki in recent weeks, I’ve already heard lot’s of people say “hang on a sec, it’s not really a wiki”. Search Wiki at the moment serves a purpose for Google account holders, who want to annotate, customize and improve the quality [...]
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