Describing public transport providers as "the oil of Cornwall's social engine", Mr Biscoe said he was very pleased the matter had been resolved satisfactorily.
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Envisioning a social base, a social engine and a social glue to create a true culture is an arduous task, much more than merely echoing fashion or momentary trends.
Facebook announced today Graph Search, a new social search engine that crawls private information (photos, places, interests) that people share on the social network site.
Back then, the draw was mainly curiosity, and there was no social media engine to fuel the hype.
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Go ahead and write the history book on this: 2011 is the year TV got institutionalized as a social network engine.
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Earlier this month, Facebook unveiled a social search engine called Graph Search, which it has described as a key pillar for the business.
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There is still an opportunity for a high performance, reputation savvy, domain specific social search engine that could make volume less of an issue.
By mining employee business communications and tapping into corporate email, calendaring, social networks, phone systems and collaboration systems, BranchIt serves as a corporate social search engine.
In the past few years, it has closed down under-performing and non-core sites like social bookmarking service Delicious, search engine AltaVista, online news aggregator Buzz, and social network MyBlogLog.
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We want to help more people start new schools, acting as an engine for social mobility in every region of the country.
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These acquisitions include Jambool (a social gaming site), Metaweb (a semantic search engine), and Angstro (a social networking startup that pulls data from Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, etc).
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Search engine advertising and social media are the two major phenomena in Turkey today.
That Skimlinks could well be a monetization engine behind new social platforms is, for my money, the real news.
Email campaigns, events, blogging, tweeting, PR, ebooks, white papers, apps, banner ads, Google Ad Words, social media outreach, search engine optimization.
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Microsoft, for example, is taking a cautious approach to its latest social media experiment, So.cl, which actually is part social network, part search engine.
When asked what the future of small business marketing would be, over 44% of NAWBO women said social media marketing and search engine optimization were the key.
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In addition, Travelzoo operates Fly.com, a travel search engine and a social commerce business ( Local Deals), which provides its subscribers with high quality deals for restaurants, spas, shows, concert events, etc.
In 2009, Bailyn founded First Page Sage, a search engine optimization and social media marketing firm with offices in San Francisco and New York, teaming up with his brother Bradley, now 33.
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Facebook has announced a major addition to its social network - a smart search engine it has called graph search.
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And the growth engine seems to be social media.
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Much like the Clinton administration, the Bush team is banking on trade as an engine of both economic and social progress.
The underlying promise is to provide companies a rich set of offer content, a marketing engine capable of reaching customers over multiple channels including email, SMS, social media and ads, an integrated transactional platform, and a rich data and analytics engine to optimize targeted delivery of offer content all within company branding.
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The last one was in January, when the social network introduced its Graph Search internal search engine.
They have social media teams engaging potential voters and search engine optimization experts looking to place the right ads for the right eyeballs.
Instead of going to a traditional search engine, consumers might go directly to a social media channel to search for content and to learn more about products or services.
Next up: a content recommendation engine tied to personalization and search and a social news feed that captures the sharing of our content and the following of contributors across FORBES and social networks.
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The search engine giant just announced a decision to incorporate more social results in its search rankings.
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So a social network directly tied to the most-widely used search engine on the planet is definitely something worth paying attention to.
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There are those cases, of course, where caution need not be applied: There is speculation that Apple plans to revitalize its sorry social network, Ping, via its acquisition of app search engine Chomp.
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