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I was talking with someone the other day and they were asking about how important non-Google search engines are. I found this chart to give some numbers to what I suspected.
Rounding off , Google still has about 70-75% of the search engine market while Yahoo and Bing (Microsoft) make up about 20-25%. But here are the real numbers from July (source: Compete Blog)
YouTube – Social Media Revolution
The stats and sources of this video can be found on Socialnomics – Social Media Blog.
What’s your reaction to this video?
Search Engine Optimization. I’ve been looking at it with fresh eyes lately and plan to say more about it in a later post, but as I was doing some homework, I found something really interesting.
I was logged into Google and did a search for the word “the” in an attempt to determine about how many websites Google knows about. I was impressed with the results but for some reason I did it again when I wasn’t logged into Google – and the results were different! These screenshots prove it, but how did Google know to rank Colbert #2 for me?… Continue Reading
When Michael Jackson unexpectedly died last week, he set one last record in his many acclaims: he broke the Internet.
Following are quotes from three sources that explain it all. Amazing!
The Internet was built to withstand nuclear attack. That was why it was built in the ’60s in the first place, as a communications system with redundancy built in so that the military could communicate even if one of the nodes went down.
We saw some of that happen today, as news of Michael Jackson’s death spread like wildfire through the Internet. TMZ.com … Continue Reading
I found the most interesting part of this is at the bottom of the graphic — the roots of Twitter. If you want to see who are the most followed Twitter accounts, go to Twitterholic.
Where do I go on the tree? I joined June 2, 2007 and currently I’m in the top 30,000. Ha! Whatever.
This came from Manolith: The Story (so far) of Twitter
I realize this is the second post in a row about the role new media has played in reporting current events compared to old media, but I’ve watched a couple of videos (below), pondered the topic more, and feel like this issue is moving from “interesting” to “important”.
At issue is the time lag between a breaking news event happening and how long it takes old media (traditional news outlets or main stream media) to report it. Compare that to how fast user-generated content and social media networks report these events. Normally I just find it interesting because I think, “of … Continue Reading
Normally I don’t care that much about the chest-beating that social media evangelists say when events break on sites like Twitter, Flickr, YouTube, blogs, etc before it does in Main Stream Media sources. It shouldn’t be a surprise that witnesses to events can get information only quickly. It doesn’t mean that information is “better”, just it was fast. However, it’s eye-witness reporting and sometimes isn’t verified. It doesn’t take away from the value of the reporting, but I don’t feel like it’s as big of a competition as I think many make it out to be.
However, it’s been interesting to … Continue Reading
Kind of off-topic here, but it’s Hurricane Season again and I created a resource that I strongly encourage you to check out. It’s the FriendFeed Hurricane Room. You can read about what the site is all about on my personal blog.
Thanks for checking it out. I just want to provide a way to help us all be aware and be safe.
Also, just as a reminder, though I haven’t been posting here much lately, I plan to soon. In the meantime I’ve been posting links to other great articles on the Orangejack Facebook Page. … Continue Reading
Recently I’ve been running across several concepts and ideas that I’ve tried to learn or figure out ways to accomplish the crazy.
Facebook Pages are interesting because I’m not sure even Facebook knows how they should work. I’ve been playing with the Orangejack Facebook Page and have watched Facebook change and improve aspects of it. Some of the items I’ve noticed or figured out within the last month or so since I opened my page are:
Twitter can be used for just about anything; it’s people getting real-time updates in a way they want to receive them from people or services that they want to hear from. Dream about the possibilities!
Here’s an interesting idea of how some creative bakers are using it (via The Raw Feed: Box lets bakeries tweet fresh bread, cupcakes)
…the BakerTweet is a Wi-Fi connected box designed to be mounted on the wall of your local bakery. The baker pre-configures it with every item on the menu. Later, when something is about to come out of the oven, the baker chooses that … Continue Reading
