At the same time, employers need to start rethinking their recruiting process, notably in using sophisticated social network search tools to go spear-fishing for high potential talent, rather than waiting for applications to come across the transom.
The first topic of the interview involved Twitter's battle with Google regarding the latter seeming to favor its own social network in search results over its rivals'.
If Graph Search rolls out as demonstrated, it will be an incredible new product, marrying the concepts of web search and social recommendation into a semantically-accurate, network-powered search engine.
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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.
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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That is, Insider Pages bases search results on collective decisions of your social network.
The last one was in January, when the social network introduced its Graph Search internal search engine.
At the search facility's launch event the social network said it would take steps to protect its youngest users.
Facebook has announced a major addition to its social network - a smart search engine it has called graph search.
On Tuesday, Facebook introduced an upgraded search tool, called Graph Search, that will scour the massive social network to answer more sophisticated questions.
Facebook's new Graph Search, which also uses data from your social network contacts to answer questions.
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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.
Do they use Google or Bing for search, Facebook on their mobiles or some other social network?
's MySpace social network, to gain a stronger foothold in search advertising and become a bigger threat to industry leader Google.
The only problem is that while Facebook drives more sales than Pinterest, social network sites still drive far fewer sales than search engines or email.
The Facebook activity of users aged between 13 and 17 would have limited visibility in the network's new "social graph" search facility, the firm said.
's (nyse: NWS - news - people ) MySpace social network, to gain a stronger foothold in search advertising and become a bigger threat to industry leader Google.
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.
We're glad to hear that there's a place Google won't go in its quest for social network supremacy, although we're sure some would like the search giant to take another step back and restore the controls over anonymity and privacy that they believe have been lost.
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Investors on Wednesday also reacted to news that Google is setting up a distribution network for social networking applications, adding a new twist in the Internet search leader's brewing rivalry with rapidly maturing startup Facebook.
Earlier speculation had suggested that the world's biggest social network was about to make a long-anticipated foray into Google's search territory.
The social network, aiming to compete better with Google and other rivals, unveils a new search feature.
Baidu is the country's main search engine, and Sina runs Sina Weibo, China's most popular Twitter-like micro-blogging social network service.
Job search engine Simply Hired has integrated with Facebook to help job seekers discover new, more relevant positions via their social network.
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