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Facebook sends more Traffic to News Sites than Google News

All along newspapers have been struggling with Google and how it “uses” their content to fill search results, both on Google News and Google.com. Well, consumer usage of news has shifted:

Hitwise data indicate that visitors from Facebook.com are more loyal to News and Media websites than are visitors from News.Google.com. In particular, among the top 5 Print Media websites in the week ending March 6, 2010, 78% of Facebook.com users were returning visitors compared to 67% from Google News. The figures are almost identical for Broadcast Media, with a 77% returning rate for Facebook.com compared to 64% for Google News. – Facebook Visitors Come Back Again and Again (HitWise)

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Sency Adds 4 New Language Search Engines

Real time search engine, Sency, who we’ve reviewed previously, just launched 4 international search engines to help users browse real time content in other languages. The real time web is alive – there are over 50 million status updates posted to Twitter every day. With all of these updates, a slew of real time search engines have launched in an effort to help users see what is being said right now.
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Review: TrueTwit for Twitter Validation

I like to follow the people who are following me on Twitter.  It helps nurture the relationship and makes it easier to have conversations.  Unfortunately, a lot of bots were really spoiling everything.  I saw someone using TrueTwit to validate followers, so I thought I’d give it a try.  I’m pretty happy with it so far.  It does have some downsides, but it certainly has helped cut down on the bot spam and I feel better about following people back again.
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