Thursday, April 15, 2010 12:01 AM/EST
Google April 14 followed up its tweet archive at Twitter's first Chirp conference with Google Follow Finder, a Twitter user locator based on Twitter's new @anywhere API. The lets users enter their Twitter account name or that of another Twitter user in a search box and receive suggestions of people to follow.
Tuesday, March 30, 2010 12:12 PM/EST
New research from Chitika and evidence from Google's own insights tool show that Google Buzz, the controversial social messaging application, has quieted down since its Feb. 9 launch and subsequent privacy brouhaha.
Wednesday, February 10, 2010 12:01 AM/EST
Offering a frontal assault on the social Web castles of Facebook and Twitter, Google Buzz lets users post status updates, pictures, links, videos and other content in Gmail and share them with users, or the entire Web. I'm not sure users will stop using Facebook or even Twitter to do some of the same stuff on Gmail.
Monday, December 14, 2009 2:01 PM/EST
I can understand why Google would want Twitter. That glut of social microblogging data would give Google something it sorely lacks: a comprehensive social network that is pushing Facebook, if not in user numbers in cultural social computing relevance. Two things on my mind here. First, I surely hope Google does not buy Twitter. Second, Google has proven it doesn't need to.
Wednesday, October 21, 2009 5:39 PM/EST
UPDATE: Despite kicking the collective butts of everyone in search, Google couldn't idly sit by and let Bing own the Web 2.0 news crush. So, in a blatant "Me, too" announcement, Google said it has reached an agreement with Twitter to include tweets in its search results. The kicker? It will be months before we see tweets populate Google results in real time.
Monday, September 28, 2009 8:20 PM/EST
When users search Google and their query matches one of the top 100 fastest-rising search terms, Google will dump a Hot Trends graph at the bottom of page. Why not make Hot Trends more visible and put Hot Trends results up at the top of search results? If you want to catch peoples' attention to show them what's hot now, that's the way to do it.
Thursday, August 06, 2009 11:39 AM/EST
I'm sure everyone else has seen this or something similar today with the current denial-of-service attack hounding Twitter for almost four hours. How has Twitter's DOS attack affected you today?
Tuesday, August 04, 2009 9:15 AM/EST
The new Fresh Bookmarks tab on the Delicious home page shows users the most recently saved Delicious bookmarks that are popping on Twitter. If Web service providers keep aggregating and indexing Twitter tweets, Google will be forced to follow Bing, Delicious and the smaller players.