Amit Singhal, a Google Fellow, who led development of real-time search has come out with some points re how Google rank Tweets.
Google rolled out a real time search update in Dec 09 to better incorporate breaking news. Twitter is a small part of this world
and it seems Google is ranking Tweets in a similar way to the Page Rank links model. So trust and reputation works here, you earn and give reputation.
The more people that link to you [follow you] the more trust you have and the chain goes on, sound familiar?
Interesting to see he states that hashtags can be a redflag to low quality tweets and spam, hashtags can be useful in group conversation.
More on this post can found here; http://www.technologyreview.com/web/24353/page1/
Google Real Time Search and Tweets
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Googles QDD Query deserves diversity
October 18, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Note to self to write a post about this topic;
Where Google veers away from showing the top 10 on algorithmic strength alone, but shows up diverse results especially where all the top sites are very similar.
Local Business Listings Reporting for Australia
September 3, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Can’t wait to see the reporting in Google’s Local Business Centre for Maps traffic, just saw a great video on it in the US. Right now we just don’t get that feature here, come on google! So much going on in this space …
So PageRank Sculpting is Out?
July 4, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Matt Cutts has now come out and said those nofollows on internal links like privacy are no longer going to help link juice flow to unblocked pages. Plenty of gossip around the web on this, keep an ear out for how this one unfolds. I have used this practice on more recent work but generally speaking have not used it much. Kinda glad its dead really
