"Je suis le roi du monde ! " - Google

6.4%.  C'est la part du trafic sur internet de Google.  Nouveau record pour le géant dont la part a augmenté de 1% depuis janvier.

Google teste l'ajout d'une dimension "réseaux sociaux" à ses résultats de recherche

Google est discrètement en train de tester l'ajout d'une dimension réseaux sociaux à ses résultats de recherche.  Cette nouvelle fonctionnalité, testée au compte gouttes sur google.com et pas encore disponible sur google.fr,  ajoute des teasers au parfum réseaux sociaux aux résultats de certaines recherches. 

Pourquoi Google doit devenir social ou disparaître

Google vient de nommer Marrissa Mayer à la direction des services de géolocalisation, ce qui prouverait qu'ils commencent à prendre le phénomène au sérieux.
Google a déjà raté la révolution sociale.  Ils devraient acheter Twitter pour réparer le problème, mais Twitter est énorme et engorge déjà des bénéfices donc le prix serait monstrueux.  Bien sûr il est toujours possible que le business modèle de Twitter ne prenne pas et que ce soit finalement une bonne chose.

Aujourd'hui, Goggle devrait acheter Foursquare pour se positionner en tête de la prochaine vague de développement d'internet : la géolocalisation.

Un nouveau moteur de recherche pour tous vos média sociaux

Nouvelles technologies, nouveaux problèmes : qui ne s'est jamais arraché les cheveux en essayant de se retrouver qui sur Facebook ou sur Twitter ou dans un email lui avait parlé de cette soirée à ne pas rater dont vous ne vous rappelez plus les détails ? La start-up introspectr (encore en béta mais vous pouvez déjà l'utiliser) apporte la solution en parcourant non pas seulement les dossiers de votre disque dur, mais aussi tous les messages de vos réseaux sociaux et tous vos média.   Peut être la réponse à l'overdose d'information des média sociaux.

Search Engines Design: a walk down memory lane from the 90s to today

Jacob Gube, Founder and Chief Editor of Six Revisionhas put together this awesome visual showing the evolution of search engines design from the 1990s to today. Some of them are not around anymore and it's nice to see them again, thanks to the wayback machine.
I used to love dogpile! Anyway, have a look... warning: nostalgia may get you!

Google Search now includes real time results from Twitter

It's been a long time waiting but here it is at last: Google has a new dynamic results category: tweets. It now includes in its search results a window where tweets tagged with your search keywords scroll in real time.
So Google did it again! True to their (public) mission statement, they now also organize real time content. This was the missing piece in their mission of organizing information. An increasing number of internet users were getting used to go to Twitter to get the latest news on a given subject. Now Google takes again the upper hand by aggregating all media forms in their search results.

They haven't included it yet in their search category menu though and it is still unclear how these results are ranked in the display order on the result page. Sponsored results are on top as usual but I have seen the tweets displayed at different levels in the results.

To be thorough, Yahoo! also includes Twitter results but they are not in real time: tweets seem to be batched.

and Bing doesn't index tweets yet.

Now the next logical question is: who is going to archive tweets? After all Twitter is a snapshot of the world collective thinking. Aren't snapshots worth collecting to remember what was on our minds at a given point in time?

What? A Search Engine that computes results on the fly?

Innovator Stephen Wolfram channels science for his latest computational invention, Wolfram Alpha. His work stems from the realization that there is "too much" information available today, in different forms, to make it fully usable by us, poor human beings. Basically we rely on lists of results already written and calculated for other purposes, ranked according to many factors, including how many other users find these results useful.

But wouldn't it be nice to actually use these data to obtain the exact results we are looking for? So the concept is to resolve how we communicate with computers to do research and also to let them actually compute data on the fly to bring us results that have never been computed before. In other words, to make all systematic knowledge immediately computable by anyone.

Hmm, bringing intelligence to search results. Using computers to actually compute and not only bring us the yellow pages. Now that is promising!

Source: Forbes.com Video Network - Thought Leaders