Google

Google Adds to Its Real Time Search Results with Facebook Fan Page Updates

As part of Google’s effort to increase its position in real time search engine results, Google will now start indexing and displaying Facebook fan page updates. This should increase traffic for both companies. For instance, Twitter has had a 9 percent increase in numbers of hits since Google started monitoring the service in December 2009. [...]

Comparing Twitter, Facebook, and Google Buzz Traffic

On Feb. 22, Twitter gave users (and non-users) a report of how much activity has been going on through the service. Since its inception in Jan. 2007, the number of Tweets each day has now grown to the insane amount of almost 50 million. That’s an average of almost 600 per second.   Let’s compare that [...]

Twitter’s Traffic Up 9%, Thanks To Google

According to Barry Schwartz, Search Engine Land’s News Editor, Twitter’s Traffic is up nine percent from December to January. Using information from VentureBeat, ComScore, and Experian Hitwise, he attributes this to be due to Google adding real-time results to their search interface in December.   “It [has] had a major impact on people discovering Tweets in the [...]