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08-15-2006, 06:51 PM
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Social Search
Hi Guys & Gals,
I just posted some notes from the Social Search Overview session from the SES conference on our blog at www.FamousAgents.com/blog be sure to get up to speed on this. I believe Social Search will become the most useful tool for webmasters. Those that get it will succeed those who don't won't. -Jim   
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08-22-2006, 03:34 PM
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Re: Social Search
I have a hard time seeing how many of the social search items can play into real estate. Sure we can bookmark each others sites at del.icio.us and create MySpace accounts and link to our sites, but it's still just an attempt at manipulation. Actually many of these things are WAY easier to manipulate than getting links, why would a search engine put value on it?
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08-22-2006, 04:30 PM
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Re: Social Search
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Google, Yahoo!, MSN, & ASK believe that links found in the social communities to be more trustworthy. Why? I don’t know if it’s really important to know why… Actually, I do understand the why. The theory goes something like this. If you have a link from the wikipedia it’s generally assumed to be a trustworthy vote for your site. If it wasn’t, the “community" would have edited it out. Social Search appears to be (at least for now) the search engines answer to finding a way to add human intervention to the algorithm. Last edited by Jim Messenger : 08-22-2006 at 04:39 PM.
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08-23-2006, 06:08 AM
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Re: Social Search
Sense you are the one that was at the conference I am hoping you can shed a little more light on this one. BTW I will be at PubCon in Nov and would love to meet you if you are going.
Sure that works for wikipedia as someone else can delete a link that they feel is commercial or off topic. But Myspace? del.icio.us? and many others everything is controlled by one person and is no different than their own blog or personal website. To test this we could easily organize 20 (or more) agents to start a Myspace account and link to each other. Or 20 agents to bookmark each others sites on del.icio.us (as a side note I have at least 20 agents sites bookmarked on my computer and i know many of them have my site bookmarked so this wouldn't really be a manipulation, just a change in location of the bookmarks). In your opinion would these activities help our rankings? Also I am pretty sure that a few of us could get link from wikipedia as we actually have local content that is useful. I just think it would be best if someone other than the site owner added the link. Again not all that hard and I am more than willing to work on this if it seems like this really is where things are going.
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