Friday, February 10th, 2012 9:16 am

Twitter: Growth related to media coverage, geographic proximity

Cambridge (ip-192.com): The rapid growth of Twitter relied primarily on media attention and traditional social networks based on geographic proximity and socioeconomic similarity, according to MIT scientists. The team analyzed the development of the social networking and microblogging site from 2006 to 2009. Twitter is said to have more than 300 million users worldwide who [...]

Infected PC’s: Google sends warning message

Mountain View (ip-192.com): Users of Windows machines should be on the watch for emails from Google: The Internet search and cloud computing company started alerting hundreds of thousands Google Search users that their machine might have been infected by malware. Google says that it can detect certain types of malware based on network traffic flow [...]

Google: New algorithm raises search results

Menlo Park (ip-192.com): In an effort to improve the quality of its search results, Google has made significant changes to its search algorithm, the company announced on its blog. "Our goal is simple: to give people the most relevant answers to their queries as quickly as possible," said Google Fellow Amit Singhal and Matt Cutts, [...]

Google Instant: Live on iPhone, Android

Menlo Park (ip-192.com): Google’s Instant predictive search is now available for mobile devices that run Android 2.2 (Froyo) and Apple’s iOS 4. The enhancement to Google’s search guesses the query and displays suggested results while users’ type. Google says that the technology saves between 2 and 5 seconds per search, or collectively 11 million seconds [...]