Social Search
Articles and resources about social search which may use a search engine algorithm and combine this with online community filtering to produce highly personalized search results.
- The Social Evolution of Search Engine Result Pages
- by Erez Barak. Sesarch Engine Watch, March 22, 2011. "Social search updates by Google and Bing have generated a lot of buzz in recent weeks. Instead of separating results from social networks like Twitter and Facebook from organic results, both search engines are streamlining search engine results pages (SERPs) by combining organic results with this social context..."
- Social, SEO and the Open Graph: What To Do Now - in pdf format (1273kb)
- (This document requires the use of Adobe Acrobat Reader). Gigya, 25 August 2010. "This paper covers: Where social and search intersect; The Open Graph and social network search; Action items for websites today..."
- Use Bing Social to search Facebook and Twitter
- by Lawrence Kim – Bing. Bing Community, June 9, 2010. Bing have announced bing.com/social - the first search experience integrating the full Facebook firehose with non-pages content. Below are some of the highlights that you will find on bing.com/social which will be live later today...
- Features: Google Social Search
- Google, 2010. "Google Social Search is a feature designed to help you discover relevant publicly-accessible content from your social circle, a set of online friends and contacts. The idea is that content from your friends and social contacts is often more relevant to you than content from strangers. For example, a movie review from an expert is useful, but a movie review from your best friend can be even better..."
- What Does Google Social Search Mean for SEO?
- By John Greer, Search Engine Watch, March 15, 2010. Google's social search "... takes a logged in user's personal connections and searches through them to find whatever they're looking for. The results are incorporated right into the results of a normal Web search in the way universal search incorporates images, videos, and other content..."
- Search is getting more social
- Posted by Maureen Heymans, Technical Lead for Social Search, and Terran Melconian, Technical Lead for Social Image Search. The Official Google Blog, 27 January 2010. "Late last year we released the Social Search experiment to make search more personal with relevant web content from your friends and online contacts. We were excited by the number of people who chose to try it out, and today Social Search is available to everyone in beta on google.com.
- Whiteboard Friday - How Search is Changing
- Posted by great scott! SEOMoz, February 11, 2010. "This week Rand discusses recent changes that seem to signal the coming of another big shift in how the engines determine results. With the incorporation of social networks into results, increased personalized search, and even Google Buzz, the social graph is clearly becoming a more and more important factor for the engines..."
- Google Launches Real Time Search
- by Danny Sullivan. Search Engine Land, December 7, 2009. "So finally, we've got Google Real Time search, as the company has announced. Below, I'm doing a quick hit on what it is, how to use it and how it compares to that last Google real time search thing you may recall hearing about..."
- Relevance meets the real-time web
- Posted by Amit Singhal, Google Fellow. The Official Google Blog, 7 December 2009. "Search is a natural starting point for discovering the world's information, and we strive to bring you the freshest, most comprehensive and relevant search results over an ever expanding universe of content on the multitude of devices you use to access it. That's why today, at the Computer History Museum, we're excited to share a few new innovations in the areas of real-time, mobile and social search that we feel are important steps in the evolution of information access..."
- What Is Social Search?
- By Mike Grehan, ClickZ, June 29, 2009. "... As the term suggests, social search deals with search within a social environment, perhaps more easily described as a community of users actively participating in the search process..."
- Twitter's Traffic Growth & The Rise Of Social Search
- by Matt McGee. Search Engine Land, March 12, 2009. "There's a lot of stats and analysis today about Twitter's traffic, how it compares to other social search sites, and who's benefiting from all the traffic Twitter can send. It seems no one argues that Twitter is on the rise, but just how high it's risen is still up for debate..."
- U Rank - Microsoft's Social Search Experimental Site
- by Danny Sullivan. Search Engine Land, October 9, 2008. "Out now from Microsoft Research is U Rank, an experiment that allows people to move results around, as well as share them with friends and add comments to listings..."
- Social Search Gets Going
- By Levy Cohen. Search Engine Watch, April 3, 2008. "The social graph has brought new meaning to social search and marketing. Your contacts and friends are certainly one source of search relevance and subject authority, but are they the best source?..."
- Google Hot Trends: Social Search Meets Web Analytics
- By Jennifer LeClaire. Newsfactor, May 23, 2007. "Google's Hot Trends takes Google Zeitgeist and Google Trends to a new level by providing an up-to-date snapshot of what's on our collective mind: For each Hot Trends result, the associated Google News, blog searches, and Google Web search results appear, offering context for each result. But is Hot Trends a useful tool or just a gimmick?
- Introduction to social search
- Pandia Search Engine News, 13 April 2007. "What is social search and why is it such a big deal? Chris Sherman defines it as "Internet wayfinding tools informed by human judgment" and he thinks these tools are responses to the fact that algorithmic search has plateaued..."
This category last updated: 4 April 2007