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Google Poaches Social Search Service AardvarkRyan Singel Wired News 02/12/2010 | With Buzz, Google Plunges Into Social NetworkingMIGUEL HELFT and BRAD STONE The New York Times 02/12/2010 |
 The coolest search engine you’ve never used got snapped up by Google Thursday for a reported $50 million. Aardvark, a company that lets you use IM, Twitter and e-mail to ask full-text questions and then get answers from people in or close to your social network, confirmed it signed a deal with Google. TechCrunch, which first reported the news, put the figure at $50 million, but Wired.com could not confirm the purchase price. |  SAN FRANCISCO — Google and Facebook are on a collision course in the increasingly competitive market for social networking services. |
Facebook 'memorialises' profiles BBC News 10/27/2009 | Twitter tweets are 40% 'babble' BBC News 08/18/2009 |
 Facebook has announced that it will be giving friends and family the option to "memorialise" the profiles of members who have died. |  A short-term study of Twitter has found that 40% of the messages sent via it are "pointless babble." |
Recession Recovery Just A Tweet Away Gravitational Marketing 08/08/2009 | US Marines renew ban on Twitter, Facebook AFP 08/05/2009 |
 "Wake up small business owners," say marketing experts Jimmy Vee and Travis Miller. "Social media isn't just for socializing." |  WASHINGTON — The US Marine Corps on Tuesday renewed a ban on Twitter and other social networking sites as the Pentagon weighed a similar prohibition over cybersecurity concerns. |
Russia Has World's Most Engaged Social Networking Audience comScore, Inc. 07/02/2009 | Move Over Twitter. Step Aside Facebook. Nixle is for Real. Nixle, LLC 06/20/2009 |
 comScore, Inc. (Nasdaq: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, today released a study of the social networking category in Russia, based on data from the comScore World Metrix audience measurement service. The study found Russia to have the world's most engaged social networking audience, with visitors spending 6.6 hours and viewing 1,307 pages per visitor per month. |  Nixle, the latest entrant into the field of instantaneous communications, is making rapid strides with police and municipal agencies nationwide - not to mention the thousands of citizens who have signed up to receive vital public safety messages. |
Teachers learn about social networkingAmy Hollyfield ABC 7 02/24/2009 | |
 SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- San Francisco teachers will get a lesson on Tuesday morning that's not part of the usual teaching curriculum, but some experts say it's essential in this day and age. Now social networking is finding its way into the classroom. | |
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