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 |
|---|---|---|
Social networking | 217 million | |
Social networking | 378 million | |
Microblogging | 89.3 million | |
Social bookmarking | 16.8 million | |
Blogs | 9.67 million | |
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
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