Comments on: Google Live Search, Social Media, and Access of Information

By: Joe America

Joe America — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 00:51:51 +0000

Primer,

“There is such a thing as media myth when the Fourth Estate does nothing but to in fact and in effect, distort information across an absorbing public”

You know that is very very true. Distortions of media. A public that eats it up. Ir rather leaves one to laugh or cry, if one can sort out truths from the lies. The US is no different, I might add. Obsession with gossip and simpleton slogans of self-appointed pundits.

Joe

By: Primer

Primer — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 07:53:26 +0000

There is such a thing as media myth when the Fourth Estate does nothing but to in fact and in effect, distort information across an absorbing public.

The martial law move is a media-fed bias about what happened in Maguindanao, come to think of it.

By: Nick

Nick — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 19:48:10 +0000

excellent point GabbyD, I’ll be asking around with regards to this.. check out google’s blog if they have updates on this, as they usually will also have information on their ranking system…

But, the ranking system doesn’t take effect, I believe, when they do it by latest.. now in terms of the same keyword being tweeted at the same time, now I guess, they would have to rank that, and most probably they may apply some sort of filters for relevancy, as they do with their current Google News..

By: GabbyD

GabbyD — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 19:30:13 +0000

but that must be millions of people using that key word. how they determine who’s at the top?

the way they do it for website is the number of links. the number of links tell you how important the page is.

i guess, the way they do it for twitter is re-tweets?

if they dont have a ranking system, how can they determine whose tweet is more important….

my tweet on cupcakes?
or marketmanila’s?

By: Hyden Toro

Hyden Toro — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 19:18:15 +0000

I use Mozilla Firefox…

By: siyetehan

siyetehan — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 13:42:39 +0000

what internet did was to (almost) bankrupt the encyclopedia and the newspaper industry.

what’s next?

By: Nick

Nick — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 11:09:16 +0000

GabbyD, I believe the feed is focused on the key word, and the most recent social media that has just used that keyword…

Just like Google News has a most recent news based on the search term that you used.

By: GabbyD

GabbyD — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 08:04:23 +0000

this twitter search, when you search, how does it determine which twitter feed to put on the top of the search list?

By: Mihir

Mihir — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 06:15:56 +0000

Hi Joe,

i dont know why u think twit is all about famous people
twitter is all about connecting, conversation, information..
just tht twitter has celebs and they get highlighted in media doesn’t mean twitter begins and ends with them ..
:)

By: Joe America

Joe America — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 01:09:11 +0000

The trick is how to discern distorted information from truth. That, I fear, is getting more difficult as people substitute reality thrill chatter, otherwise known as gossip, for information. Still, there is no going back, so one must learn new skills I think. A high degree of skepticism, and its sister, a lack of gullibility, being among them.

I myself am not a twit . . . as I don’t care that much about famous people, except when they are genuinely out to help the less than famous, and then only when they do it back stage instead of on stage . . .

Joe