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Facebook is finally making sure there will be more transparency and differentiated identities with some new features. Mark Zuckerberg’s giant social network is reacting to the growing competition with Google+ and pressure from data protection agencies. Read the rest of this entry »

Social search is being made easier by the online information service dialo.de, allowing users to search through about 4.8 million service providers while all-the-while reviewing their own experience with the according services. The site offers an extensive network of tips, recommendations, and warnings from which all users can profit. Now, the website is offering social ratings directly through users’ Facebook and Twitter accounts. With this, dialo.de offers its users a new and innovative possibility for the circulation of personal tips, recommendations, and experiences from everyday life. Read the rest of this entry »

Looks like the daily-deal market is losing significance to some of the major players in the market: shortly after Facebook’s announcement to suspend their daily-deal program, the rating community Yelp is following suit. Well, not quite as extreme, but 50% of the workforce has been cut back. Yelp said that it is going to be focusing on “good” deals instead of having no choice but to offer those with an “inherently declining quality.” Read the rest of this entry »

The social network Facebook has been given a facelift in the past week: Almost one year after its release, Facebook announced early last week that its location-based service Facebook Places would be killed off. Later in the week, the network also announced that its online-coupon market, Deals, would also be killed off. But this doesn’t completely mean that Facebook is leaving the location-based market. The social network added that its check-in deal service will still be offered, albeit a bit different than previously. Read the rest of this entry »

Lary Page can be excited about the positive reception of the Google+ project and a record turnover for the second quarter of the year. Meanwhile, Facebook has received a poor grade in the subject of user satisfaction from a study.
The social media market is ready for a new player, according to the census administered by the 2011 American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI) E-Business Report, which was conducted with the market research institute ForeSee Results. The social network Facebook received the poorest grade of all the social networks that were analyzed in customer satisfaction. The winner in the category for social media was Wikipedia. But who could have been in first place in the portal and search engine sectors? That’s right: Google. Because the study was conducted last month, Google+ is not included in the study, as the project wasn’t launched until afterwards. But according to a press release by ForeSee, the low results that Facebook has received give Google+ a good start, that is, if the service can offer users something better. Read the rest of this entry »

For quite some time, the Google recommendation button with which users could rate websites or search results with “this is cool” was only available on the English version of google.com. As of this week, the search engine giant is making the +1 button available worldwide, starting with google.de, google.co.uk, and google.fr. More countries should be made available soon, according to the Google-Webmaster-Blog. As if that weren’t enough: at pretty much the same time, the company started up its social network project Google+ as an alternative to Facebook. Read the rest of this entry »

Even though the total number of users has gone down, according to US media reports, Facebook’s winning streak is holding up: the social network is expecting to double its 2010 profits through display advertising, launching the site to become the largest advertiser on the net, according to the research of eMarketer. Yahoo, the previous front-runner, will fall to second place, followed by Google in third. Read the rest of this entry »

Last year, Microsoft announced its new partnership with its search engine Bing and the social network Facebook. Now, about five months later, we are finally seeing a result: users who have logged into Facebook and then who conduct a search on Bing will see results that friends have recommended using the “like” button. Read the rest of this entry »

Google just continues in the direction of Twitter and Facebook. The search engine has now integrated in addition to the two other social communities like Quora and Gowalla in its real-time search. User questions, answers, posts and ratings – all food for the lagging Google feature. However, with a “lucky” algorithm, the posts can also show up in the universal search.

Mark Zuckerberg’s latest move may be the decision maker: Facebook has just applied for a patent for a search algorithm for its social network. With the new algorithm, Facebook may soon be able to introduce a search engine to its community members showing the links that their friends have also clicked on.
The new Facebook patents is officially titled: “Ranking Search Results Based on the Frequency of Access on the Search Results by Users of a Social-Networking System.” In other words, when users search for something on the web, results will be ranked according to how many users on the social network have previously clicked on them. Read the rest of this entry »