Google started personalizing everyone’s search results last week. This week, they added real time search. If they get social, they can make make search really personal. Here is the start of what I would want integrated into a personalized search algorithm: Twitter: Pages that I’ve linked to Twitter: Pages that my friends have linked to Twitter: [...]
Journalists have traditionally decided when a story ends, taking into consideration the amount of new information, open questions, public interest and a slew of other factors. But when do stories powered by streams of information end? Each image below links to news about President Barack Obama and the Nobel Prize, as gathered by real-time search [...]
While the Twitter vs. Google debates rage on, a group of 42 mice have combined the best of both worlds and created a new search engine called Topsy. Type a couple of words into Topsy and it will return a list of web pages ranked by how many times they were linked to on Twitter, and [...]
Backtweets is a web-based tool that finds tweets that link to specific web pages. You can use it to find and follow people who link to posts and articles you find interesting. Let’s say you’re interested in video journalism. Earlier tonight, Robert Courtemanche compiled a list of shooting tips in a blog post entitled “Cool Links #30: [...]
