Social search is resurfacing as a hot topic of late , due to how effective Twitter has become in helping you find information, and how it is close to how we source information in the offline world (via our network). From a particular perspective, the search experience is broken into three aspects: searching the web, searching within a website, and searching Twitter is being differentiated by being called a “ Help Engine “. I think it’s getting us closer to the KM productivity (sense-making) aim that knowledge sharing and knowledge transfer

Twitter as a search engine. But I never really conceptualized it as search.   First, I searched for something for me. But you have to have a question in mind to make the search meaningful beyond curiosity. But chocolate is a wide ranging topic so using Twitter to search and listen would give you many results The folks over at BrandonHall, the learning folks who blog lots of interesting links, pointed out a value of Twitter that not all of us may have seen yet. This was interesting to me because I’m co-leading a short online workshop introducing social

Ever wondered how to search the Bio fields for someone in Twitter? How to search Twitter profiles? Nothing to do with Peoplebrowsr search though. But I happen to genuinely think being able to search Twitter bios is cool, and haven’t found another way of doing it except maybe directories like Twellow. Peoplebrowsr is the only surefire way I’ve found. I

Ecology of social search for learning resources Vourikari In this paper they use attention metadata to model the ecology of social search. An interesting part of the paper summarizes new search options : Explicit search : comprises the traditional search box with text and filtering options based on multilingual metadata. “Find by Few days ago Hans Põldoja told me that Riina Vuorikari has been using the ecology concept in her social retrieval studies. It gives some input to the model of ecosystems (learning ecology) .

It’s about information and search. Twitter, on the other hand is not really built for connecting with people - its real value comes from the comments and contributions that are added to its database and that can then be searched. On Google I search for information and get a set of results based on which sites score most highly in their algorithm. Image by manfrys via Flickr People are often comparing Twitter with Facebook.

Made the search box much more prominent It is much more than just moving and making the search box larger. It shows the importance of search to Facebook, and indeed to all social networks. Why search is important in social networks Image by minifig via Flickr Many people will have woken up this morning to another change to the Facebook user interface.

web page without links in to it can never be discovered by search engines , nor will people find the page unless directed to it. transfers, to your web page some amount of its authority both with search engines and with Internet users. Links play an key role in search engine optimization . No aspect of the Internet is more critical to understand than hyperlinks or simply links, as we call them. After all, what is the World Wide Web but countless documents which are interconnected by links?

On Friday we posted about an experiment running on one of our online communities , comparing paid and organic search strategies . This is just one of the ways that our clients measure the ROI of their online community - by increased traffic from organic search or significant savings on their paid search bills. Tags: social media qualitative market research Social Media Virtual community Strategic planning online market research freshminds Image via Wikipedia Measuring ROI is an important topic in social media, all the communities that we build at FreshNetworks

to say these technologies are only artifacts in our search to keep making our A CEO’s first question, after the decision to launch a new product product or expand to a new market in a different geography, is WHO will lead this endeavor? states the EVP

Yesterday I wrote about Focused Search-Based Applications as one way that Web and enterprise search is expanding. The Wall Street Journal recently posted an interesting article on this topic, Internet Giants Look For Edge In Real-Time Search . It started by explaining that, “that real-time search helps Internet users find Web posts, including those from San Francisco's Twitter Inc., Here is another. seconds after publication.”