Posts Tagged ‘google’

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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What the Google Caffeine Update Means for Businesses

Thursday, September 10th, 2009

Google Caffeine Update

Google Caffeine Update

Google is getting ready to roll out its biggest update since the “Big Daddy” update which happened back in 2006. They’re calling it the Google Caffeine update and are claiming that this new under-the-hood infrastructure will improve the speed and accuracy with which Google will index web pages.

“For the last several months, a large team of Googlers has been working on a secret project: a next-generation architecture for Google’s web search. It’s the first step in a process that will let us push the envelope on size, indexing speed, accuracy, comprehensiveness and other dimensions.”
- Google Webmaster Central Blog

Matt Cutts, the head of Google’s web spam team, calls the Google Caffine update “A rewrite of our indexing system”.

A rewrite is a big thing; it’s important to take a look at what exactly this means for businesses running search engine optimisation (SEO) campaigns.

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