Real Time News
Google Showing Twitter Ads. Facebook Next?
8th November 2010
Last year, Google started integrated information from Twitter into their real time search results. They have now gone one step further – Promoted Tweets have started showing on Google latest search results pages. More »
Google v Bing – Kings Of Social Search?
21st October 2010
Microsoft engineers teamed up with Facebook developers, once again to make Bing search results more social. This new social search service was announced just a week age. Since then, it could only be a matter of time before Google did something similar. Predictably, Google has just introduced social enhancements to their search service. More »
Twitter Launches Places
15th June 2010
Twitter has finally announced that the launch of their long-awaited geolocation service, in the form of a new feature known as Twitter Places. More »
Google Testing Real Time Twitter Ads
8th June 2010
Last month Google started testing a new form of display ad that integrates realtime updates from Twitter into the AdWords ad delivery platform. More »
Google Caffeine Readying For Launch
4th January 2010
While everyone has been talking about how Google is integrating more and more real time search results with the help of sites like Twitter, Facebook and MySpace, there is the less visible algorithm that powers search results, which Google has been working on making more real time. More »
Yahoo! Gets Real Time News Updates
23rd November 2009
Earlier this month we had news that Yahoo! was experimenting with real time search. Now, Yahoo! has officially integrated with Twitter and is featuring results from the micro-blogging platform for hot news topics. More »
Taptu Brings Realtime Search To Mobile
16th November 2009
With the growing popularity of realtime search, it was only a matter of time before it became available on the mobile Web. Taptu has managed to beat Google and Microsoft to become the first provider of realtime search on mobile. More »
Yahoo! Experiments With Real Time Search
9th November 2009
With both Microsoft and then Google announcing individual deals that give them access to real time information on Twitter, Yahoo! cannot afford to be left behind in the race. More »
Google Trends In Google Search
1st October 2009
With millions of users all over the world using Google search everyday, certain topics are bound to be very popular or ‘Hot’ among searchers at any given point of time. Google will now inform users about the popularity of such topics when a user searches for them. More »
Twitter Geolocation Service Due For Launch
27th August 2009
So far it has been difficult to assess the geographic location from which a tweet originates, due to the unavailability of sophisticated apps required for the purpose. Twitter will soon launch a new feature to make this process simple. More »
Can Facebook Justify Acquiring FriendFeed?
19th August 2009
Facebook has been trying hard to offer the latest and most popular new social features to their users. In an attempt to mimic Twitter’s functionality they bought the social media sharing site FriendFeed last week for a tidy sum of $47.5 million. More »
Google Search Gets A Shot Of Caffeine
13th August 2009
When Microsoft Launches a new search engine, could Google be far behind? Of course not! Hot on the heels of BingTweets, Google announced on the Webmaster Central Blog that they will soon launch a new and upgraded version of their search engine. More »
RealTime Notifications And New Channel Layouts On YouTube
27th April 2009
Since sites like Facebook and FriendFeed have already enabled real time interaction for users on their site, YouTube is starting to do the same. A new feature called YouTube RealTime is now being tested on a limited basis. More »
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