Fusion Bomb: SEO And Social Applications

Writing by Nick Stamoulis on Wednesday, 30 of January , 2008 at 4:48 pm

For the past year-and-a-half about all you’ve heard is social media, social media, social media. Either it’s StumbleUpon, or it’s Facebook, or it’s Digg. Now it’s MySpace.

The once wacky hangout for high school kids with nothing better to do is now developing its own development center. The strange this is that back in November of last year MySpace and Google announced that they were partnering in a join social application called OpenSocial. With MySpace stretching out to improve its social networking capabilities and partnering with Google - in fact, all the search engines now seem to be interested in social media of some kind - it only makes sense that the search engines and the popular social media sites will start figuring out ways to work together to increase member benefits and improve user experience. The big question is what will that look like?

Google now owns YouTube. Yahoo! owns del.icio.us. MSN adCenter is partnering with the Wall Street Journal. Ask has 3D. Google has universal search. The race is on to get social media and search engine optimization mixed together in some fashion.

If natural language search ever catches on, and I think it’s just a matter of time, then I say watch out. Web 3.0 will be at our doorsteps before we can say Google. I’m already all google-eyed over it.

Category: SEO, Social & Viral Marketing

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