Archive for January, 2010

2010 - The Year of Mobile Search

Thursday, January 28th, 2010

Online marketers around the world are predicting that 2010 is going to be the year of mobile search. Over recent years we have seen the mobile phone technology advance exponentially to product handsets that can carry out almost any task. New products such as the iPhone, Blackberry and various handsets running Google’s Android operating system, are all vying for top spot in 2010 - the year of mobile search!
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Bing and Google Real Time Twitter Search Ranking Factors

Thursday, January 21st, 2010

Twitter Real Time SearchWe’ve spoken about Bing’s contract with Twitter in our previous post about Bing’s real time Twitter search. Google has been rolling out its own Social Search, which includes Twitter search, over the past few weeks.

Google Real Time Twitter Search

There are a few ways of triggering Twitter search on Google. If you specifically want to search through Tweets for a particular term, go to Google and search for your query. Then, click on “Search Options” at the top left hand corner and select “Latest” from the time range options.

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