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Social Search

Is Google +1 The New “Like” Button?

by Chris Corak April 14, 2011

Google is making significant effort in 2011 to blend social elements into its standard search results. In February, Google launched an update to further integrate Twitter, Flickr and Quora information within its standard search results. Only one month later, nearly a year after Facebook’s launch of the “Like” button, Google announced its rival, the “+1” [...]

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Social Search: Leveling the Playing Field

by Travis Unwin May 28, 2010

The blending of social and search has happened. Often called real-time search, it presents both opportunities and challenges to marketers. Success won’t be found in traditional search engine marketing or search engine optimization efforts. To participate in social search, marketers are going to have to embrace social. Artifacts of social search take many forms. Search [...]

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Your Chocolate Is In My Peanut Butter! Search and Social collide!

by Jeff Moriarty February 1, 2010

As a deeply addicted internet denizen, I’ve always known that search engine visibility was important. It wasn’t until I started working at Sitewire that I realized how radically the landscape is changing, and how many companies are going to get left in the dust. I spoke a few members of Sitewire’s search brain trust (Chris, [...]

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