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Consumer Perspectives on 2010 – Google Think2010 Series

Welcome back to the Think2010 series. In last week’s introductory post, we noted that this series will be devoted to looking forward, focusing on themes, trends and perspectives to help plan for the coming year. In this second post, we’ll get the ball rolling by providing a collection of perspectives from some very important people – everyday consumers.

In our random (and diverse) sampling a couple things seem to be ringing true. Firstly, consumers seem optimistic and hopeful about the year ahead and the extra “breathing room” that will be afforded them. And secondly, it’s clear that their media habits continue to evolve, with ongoing and increasing involvement online, from searching to shopping to social media.

Have a look at what these everyday people have to say as they consider the economy, their lives and their media habits for next year along with some of their perspectives on how they interact with online ads.

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Facebook/Twitter Use May Now Mean More for Google/Bing Rankings

Social Media for SEO is Not Just About Links Anymore

Disclaimer: This article was originally written before Google made its announcement, and has been updated to reflect that.

Google and Microsoft have both inked deals with Twitter and Microsoft has also inked one with Facebook to integrate Twitter and Facebook updates into Bing search results. Google will be adding tweets to search results. 

Google’s Marissa Mayer says, ” We believe that our search results and user experience will greatly benefit from the inclusion of this up-to-the-minute data, and we look forward to having a product that showcases how tweets can make search better in the coming months. That way, the next time you search for something that can be aided by a real-time observation, say, snow conditions at your favorite ski resort, you’ll find tweets from other users who are there and sharing the latest and greatest information.”

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How Does Bing Rank Tweets?

Bing Tries to Bring Relevancy Factor to Real-Time Search

As previously reported, Microsoft has made deals with both Facebook and Twitter, which will see Bing feature updates from both networks in real-time search efforts. To me, this says that social media just became an even bigger part of search engine marketing, particularly with Google also on board with Twitter and rumored to be talking to Facebook.

Bing has already made a beta version of its Twitter search available to users at bing.com/twitter. The most interesting aspect of Bing’s Twitter search is that it offers something plain old Twitter Search (formerly Summize) doesn’t. That is a relevancy factor (or at least an attempted relevancy factor).

Twitter Search only shows you results displayed chronologically, which has really always seemed to be the essence of real-time search to me anyway. But Bing has a “Best Match” option, which attempts to give certain tweets more weight than others.

How do you put relevancy on “real-time” results though? “Real-time” is based on time (obviously). The phrase even has the word “time” in it. A search for “WebProNews” on Bing’s Twitter Search gives me different results for “most recent” and for “best match”. I can’t see that the “best match” results are any better than the “most recent” results, however.

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