Entries from Search Engine Roundtable tagged with 'social search'

Yahoo Launches Social Site Yahoo! Buzz

Last week, Yahoo launched Yahoo Buzz, which can be compared to a social news site like Digg. Here's the lowdown: Currently in beta, Yahoo! Buzz measures consumer votes and search patterns to identify interesting and timely stories and videos from...

Does Social Search Convert or are Bounce Rates Higher?

A Cre8asite Forums thread is buzzing about social media, where a forum member asks if bounce rates are higher than from other traffic sources. It really depends on the audience and the content. Someone might go to a site and...

Yahoo! Opens Mash Social Networking Platform

Yahoo has released Yahoo! Mash in what appears to be the closest thing to a Facebook-MySpace clone that I've seen coming from Yahoo. Initial impressions seem to indicate that it's not much different than Facebook at all and many individuals...

Specialized Social Search Engines: Where To Go?

Social media is important, as I alluded to today. Many people are finding that mainstream social sites are not always sufficient to address certain interests. Digg is a technology site. Netscape is more politically oriented. Sphinn is a search marketer's...

Sphinn Combines Social Search and Forum Discussion

Yesterday, Danny announced the launch of Sphinn, a brand new social site for internet marketing professionals. Features include a forum discussion, a story/comments voting system, and story submission somewhat like Digg. This time, however, you can submit your stories related...

Cre8asite Forums Launches Social Media And Tagging Forum & Adds Li Adds Mod

Cre8asite Forums launched a new forum last night named Social Media And Tagging. Kim Krause-Berg, founder of Cre8asite Forums, explains the new forum: In light of the addition of social media and tagging as tools and methodology for SEO/M practiices,...

Social Search: Up Close With Yahoo!

Chris Sherman is up the panel moderating, he stumbles on the words "Social Search" together. DaveN is on my left drinking coffee. The Google Sitemaps team is having a lunch event after this session, I am personally not going, even-though...


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