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YouTube Search Adds Time Watched As Ranking Factor

YouTube Search Adds Time Watched As Ranking Factor | SearchTools | Scoop.it
The YouTube Blog announced they have adjusted their ranking algorithm to include the time a video was watched. YouTube said they experimented with this.
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5 Free Deep Reputation Management Checking Tools - Search Engine Land

5 Free Deep Reputation Management Checking Tools - Search Engine Land | SearchTools | Scoop.it
5 Free Deep Reputation Management Checking Tools
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Remember back in the day when search results were just ten blue text links on a page?
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Microsoft adds new creation tools to its social-search project - ZDNet

Microsoft adds new creation tools to its social-search project - ZDNet | SearchTools | Scoop.it
Microsoft adds new creation tools to its social-search project
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How to Use Content + Social Media for Link Building - Search Engine Journal

How to Use Content + Social Media for Link Building - Search Engine Journal | SearchTools | Scoop.it
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You can perform a similar keyword search to find blogging connections on Google+.
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Teaching Students Better Online Research Skills

Teaching Students Better Online Research Skills | SearchTools | Scoop.it
Many educators are explicitly teaching such skills as how to evaluate a website's credibility, how to use precise keywords, and how to better mine search engines.

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Linda Dougherty's curator insight, June 12, 12:09 AM

Good article to share with your teachers who are looking to improve student research skills to meet standards.

Maria Persson's comment, June 17, 11:00 PM
If this happens in the early years of learning it will not be such an issue at the tertiary level where plagiarism is still a real problem!
Maria Persson's curator insight, June 17, 11:07 PM

A number of great points that are both practical and theoritical in terms of how to assist students' understanding of digital literacy skills, preparing them for the future, increasing their understanding of what the future might bring! 

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The Future Is Getting Closer The Semantic Revolution

The Future Is Getting Closer The Semantic Revolution | SearchTools | Scoop.it
The Future is Getting Closer | The Semantic Revolution http://t.co/XJ96keNxU7

 

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Find, Select and Post the Most Relevant Stories On Any Topic with ContentDJ

Find, Select and Post the Most Relevant Stories On Any Topic with ContentDJ | SearchTools | Scoop.it

A news aggregation, curation and social media publishing commercial tool.

 



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ContentDJ is a commercial web app which allows you to easily monitor your favorite topics via keywords and to share the most relevant ones to your preferred social media channels (Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIN) or to your self-hosted WordPress blog.


In addition to these core capabilities, ContentDJ integrates an excellent social media editorial calendar facility which allows you to schedule and organize your postings to different social media according to your preferences, as well as a clean-cut and well orgamized dashboard of stats covering your social media activities.


ContentDJ has an excellent user interface making easy and intuitive to set up and configure your account in minutes. The app can notify you via email, according to your preferred scheduled time slots, about new content being available for your review.


Pricing starts at $6.75/mo where you get:

  • three trackable keywords ($14.25/mo gives you five)
  • one social account connected ($14.25 gives you two)
  • social media editorial calendar
  • daily email digest


P.S.: ContentDJ promises also a Playlist page, a public web page in which you can organize and showcase your best stuff, but it looks like as this feature has yet to be released, or is not part of what you can presently access through the free trial.



Key strengths:


  • easy-to-use
  • intuitive interface
  • aggregates and visibly rank incoming stories
  • easy to pick or reject content stories
  • publishes directly to Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIN
  • posts directly via XML-RPC to self-hosted Wordpress sites
  • create a post from scratch feature
  • free trial - no credit card required



Limits:


  • no free base level account available
  • no editing for selected stories (possible in editorial calendar)
  • no possibility to input selected RSS feeds or sources to monitor
  • no bookmarklet
  • unclear billing options on purchase page
  • no in-depth tutorials or videos



Review: https://lonelybrand.com/blog/curate-content-more-efficiently-with-content-dj/


Free 14-day trial available.


Find out more and try it out now: http://contentdj.com/




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RealtimeBoard A Great Tool for Visual Collaboration ~ Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

RealtimeBoard A Great Tool for Visual Collaboration ~ Educational Technology and Mobile Learning | SearchTools | Scoop.it

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Looks like great potential for collaborative work for students and teachers in the LC.

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Google Study Says Mobile Searchers Act Quickly, With 55 Percent ...

Google Study Says Mobile Searchers Act Quickly, With 55 Percent ... | SearchTools | Scoop.it
Google is releasing the results of a new study conducted with Nielsen on where people conduct mobile searches and what they do after their search. One of the..

 

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“Trulia Suggests” Search Results Without Searching - Search Engine Land

“Trulia Suggests” Search Results Without Searching - Search Engine Land | SearchTools | Scoop.it
“Trulia Suggests” Search Results Without Searching Search Engine Land Trulia logo One of the very interesting things going on in search is the phenomenon of “predictive search” or personalized recommendations based on a range of user data inputs...

 

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5 Unusual Uses of Google Image Search You Might Not Have Heard About

5 Unusual Uses of Google Image Search You Might Not Have Heard About | SearchTools | Scoop.it
By now, we all know about different uses of Google Image search. Yaara’s post on some vital Google Image Search hacks should always hold you in good stead.

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“Trulia Suggests” Search Results Without Searching - Search Engine Land

“Trulia Suggests” Search Results Without Searching - Search Engine Land | SearchTools | Scoop.it
“Trulia Suggests” Search Results Without Searching Search Engine Land Trulia logo One of the very interesting things going on in search is the phenomenon of “predictive search” or personalized recommendations based on a range of user data inputs...

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Google's 4 Biggest Technical Challenges, According To Search Guru Amit ... - Forbes

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Google is the dominant player in Internet search and one of the most important technology companies. But it still faces major challenges.

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Julie Spira: Google Image Search: Can It Replace Online Dating ...

Julie Spira: Google Image Search: Can It Replace Online Dating ... | SearchTools | Scoop.it
It started off as an inbound phone call to my cell phone. Even though the caller ID listed the call as "private," I answered the phone since I was waiting for a return call from someone I had just spoken with.

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Blekko Reimagines Search for iOS and Android, Launches izik for Smartphones - PYMNTS.com

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Blekko Reimagines Search for iOS and Android, Launches izik for Smartphones
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The Dynamic Inference Graph is an enormous semantic database that algorithmically maps queries into thousands of categories.
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Google alternative DuckDuckGo passed 3M queries yesterday, up 50% in 8 days as PRISM fears rise

Google alternative DuckDuckGo passed 3M queries yesterday, up 50% in 8 days as PRISM fears rise | SearchTools | Scoop.it
Just over a week after passing a record 2 million searches in a single day, DuckDuckGo has announced a new milestone: the company processed 3,095,907 searches yesterday. DuckDuckGo ...
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Google Is Starting War On Child Pornography, Not Ending

Google Is Starting War On Child Pornography, Not Ending | SearchTools | Scoop.it
Claims that Google and other search engines will be ending child pornography on the Web are sadly overhyped. (Claims that Google and other search engines will be ending child pornography on the Web are sadly overhyped.
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Google Now Finally Comes to Google Search on iPad and iPhone | PadGadget

Google Now Finally Comes to Google Search on iPad and iPhone | PadGadget | SearchTools | Scoop.it
Google’s answer to Siri for Android devices has been a big hit for non-iOS users. The virtual personal assistant has been rumored to be making its way to the iPhone and iPad.

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John Pearce's curator insight, April 30, 8:06 AM

OK this looks interesting but is also slightly disquieting at the same time. At first blush Now could be useful in drawing together information about your day however it's the underlying awareness and aggregation of what might otherwise be sensitive information about yourself that has potential for mischief or worse. Ah well with every advance comes the potential for misadventure or worse. What do others think?

Niels Jakob Pasgaard's curator insight, April 30, 11:40 AM

Congrats i-product users. Better late than never ;-)

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Forget Searching For Content - Content Is About To Start Searching For You

Forget Searching For Content - Content Is About To Start Searching For You | SearchTools | Scoop.it
In the near future of search, you won't be looking for Internet content anymore - it will be looking for you.

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Curate Online Content via RSS with Qyurate

Curate Online Content via RSS with Qyurate | SearchTools | Scoop.it
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gwynethjones's curator insight, March 18, 9:31 AM

Sites step up to take the floods of people looking for RSS feed curation services

Pippa Davies @PippaDavies 's curator insight, March 18, 11:39 AM

If you don't have a blog and want to curate,  here is another option using Google apps.  

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#Pinterest Launches Analytics Tool for Business | Search Engine ...

#Pinterest Launches Analytics Tool for Business | Search Engine ... | SearchTools | Scoop.it
Starting today, marketers with business accounts on Pinterest now have a tool for tracking basic web traffic between their verified website and Pinterest.

 

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Google's 4 Biggest Technical Challenges, According To Search Guru Amit ... - Forbes

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The semantic web: a key to smarter natural language interfaces

The semantic web: a key to smarter natural language interfaces | SearchTools | Scoop.it

Natural language user interfaces show great promise for a variety of situations, but Nuance Communications CTO Vlad Sejnoha sees a need for standard formats if new entrants aren’t to be blocked as data sources.

 

The semantic web, a term coined by Tim Berners-Lee, is an initiative being developed under the auspices of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). It aims, through the use of standardized tags and formats, to build a framework where content on the web has machine-understandable meaning, rather than simply being searchable by keyword.

 

Asked by GigaOM Research analyst George Gilbert how best to tap a variety of information repositories without having to “hardwire” the language interface into each one separately, Sejnoha said the answer lies in an open approach.

 

Read More: http://gigaom.com/2013/03/21/why-nuance-sees-the-semantic-web-as-a-key-to-smarter-natural-language-interfaces/

 

 


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The semantic web: a key to smarter natural language interfaces

The semantic web: a key to smarter natural language interfaces | SearchTools | Scoop.it

Natural language user interfaces show great promise for a variety of situations, but Nuance Communications CTO Vlad Sejnoha sees a need for standard formats if new entrants aren’t to be blocked as data sources.

 

The semantic web, a term coined by Tim Berners-Lee, is an initiative being developed under the auspices of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). It aims, through the use of standardized tags and formats, to build a framework where content on the web has machine-understandable meaning, rather than simply being searchable by keyword.

 

Asked by GigaOM Research analyst George Gilbert how best to tap a variety of information repositories without having to “hardwire” the language interface into each one separately, Sejnoha said the answer lies in an open approach.

 

Read More: http://gigaom.com/2013/03/21/why-nuance-sees-the-semantic-web-as-a-key-to-smarter-natural-language-interfaces/

 


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Google Explains How Search Actually Works - eWeek

Google Explains How Search Actually Works - eWeek | SearchTools | Scoop.it
eWeek Google Explains How Search Actually Works eWeek Google wants users to know how sesarch actually happens, from the moment they type a query into the Search box on Google.com until the instant the results appear, ready for curious users to find...

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YouTube One Channel Now Available for Everyone - Search Engine ...

YouTube One Channel Now Available for Everyone - Search Engine ... | SearchTools | Scoop.it
If you're interested in building a successful channel on YouTube, you now must think about how to build a cohesive channel experience for your audience. Your channel strategy – and your ability to drive subscriptions – are ...

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