Blogs by Adrian Jennings

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Searchers are blind to Real Time Search

16 March 2010 | Posted by Adrian Jennings | Search, Social Media
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At the end of 2009 Google launched real time search results to show Google users updates as they were happening around the web. This pretty much meant crawling Twitter and displaying the tweets from trending topics. As you can see in the screenshot pictured here the real time search results are all from twitter.com. If [...]

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Social Networking spam on the increase

2 February 2010 | Posted by Adrian Jennings | Social Media

Have you noticed an increase of spam on Facebook recently? Spam is not a new problem on social networks but recently it seems that it has increased on Facebook. We know the problems that Twitter faces with spam bots and trend spam . Anyone with a Twitter account has been followed by @dirtypics or an [...]