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Google +1 and The Death of Serendipitous Search

May 11th, 2011. Posted by

When Google +1 was announced back at the end of March, flurries of excitement spread around the tech world. Amongst the most intrigued were SEOs, as the announcement freshly revitalised one of their favourite forward-facing phrases: social search. Below is the history of people using the phrase ‘social search’, and underneath is mentions of Google +1; note the correlation of the spikes at the end of March:
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Google’s Bogus Results Count

June 18th, 2008. Posted by

As I mentioned in the last post, the accuracy of the entire result set is critical to us at Brandwatch, but so too is making sure that we have as big a sample as possible. »


Recall vs Precision

June 17th, 2008. Posted by
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This is a classic tug-of-war issue with search. There is a good definition on Wikipedia and I really like Tim Bray’s description on the Ongoing site. »


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