Comments on: Bit.ly’s relevance to Search Engines

By: @davehonig

@davehonig — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 06:40:30 +0000

Good post. Although one would think Bit.ly exits to twitter since the betaworks guys ( own bit.ly ) sold summize to twiiter. You make solid points about search. ( especially since i dont think Goog can index short urls links.. can be huge disadvantage later on. I think bit.ly click stream data would allow someone to build a tremendous, real time social graph which i believe is where the money is. But who knows. Dont buy the re-tweeting relevance. that can be recorded elsewhere, its the engagement that matters.

@davehonig

By: Tyler Willis

Tyler Willis — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 01:37:14 +0000

For Twitter: sort by retweets would definitely be powerful.

For Google: Arguably the “see news results for [your query here]” that Google displays in most SERPs is a version of intermixing time and relevance — I'd like to see a section in Google results that was real-time results and was ranked based on understand what people are publishing and clicking on related to that search query.

By: leonardspeiser

leonardspeiser — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 01:27:29 +0000

Very hard to mix time and relevance in sort order. When retweeting is relaunched I think they'll offer a new sort by most retweets, filtered by last 14 days should be pretty good.

By: @davehonig

@davehonig — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 23:40:30 +0000

@davehonig

By: Tyler Willis

Tyler Willis — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 18:37:14 +0000

For Twitter: sort by retweets would definitely be powerful.

By: leonardspeiser

leonardspeiser — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 18:27:29 +0000

Very hard to mix time and relevance in sort order. When retweeting is relaunched I think they'll offer a new sort by most retweets, filtered by last 14 days should be pretty good.