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SEO Warrior
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SEO Warrior

by John I Jerkovic
November 2009
Beginner content levelBeginner
496 pages
13h 46m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Google and Social Media Sites

Google is not sitting on the sidelines of the social media playing field. With its acquisitions of YouTube (the most popular video sharing site), FeedBurner (the most popular web feed tracker), and Jaiku (a microblogging site similar to Twitter), Google is making a statement regarding its interest in the social media domain. YouTube is by far Google’s most popular social media property, with tens of millions of daily video downloads.

Google indexes hundreds of millions of pages from its competing social media sites. Table 15-4 lists the Google index size for certain sites as of this writing. Facebook is currently by far the most popular social media site, followed by MySpace, Flickr, YouTube (owned by Google), and Twitter.

Table 15-4. Google index size of major social media sites

Site

Type

Indexed pages

MySpace.com

Social networking

217 million

Facebook.com

Social networking

378 million

Twitter.com

Microblogging

89.3 million

Digg.com

Social bookmarking

16.8 million

Technorati.com

Blogs

9.67 million

StumbleUpon.com

Social bookmarking

4.04 million

YouTube.com (Google)

Video sharing

144 million

Flickr.com (Yahoo!)

Picture sharing

169 million

In mid-2009, there was a lot of speculation about Google acquiring Twitter. A custom search engine called Twoogle is just fueling the speculations. Figure 15-6 shows its current interface. Searches in Twoogle produce mixed results, including results from Twitter.com and Jaiku.com as well as the regular Google results.

Figure 15-6. Twoogle

Where Google ...

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