Search Gets More Social | SmallBusinessNewz

By Chris Crum - Tue, 05/31/2011 - 10:03am.

…whether you like it or not

One thing is clear. For better or for worse, the major search engines are going more social in their quest to deliver more relevant results. In fact, even the non-major ones are as well.


Is social a major part of your search strategy? Let us know.

Google recently announced the global launch of its social search, and Bing heavily boosted its integration with Facebook (the most popular social network - by far). I wrote an article for WebProNews recently looking at how to get more Facebook Likes and more traffic to your site with Facebook, some of which can actually be fueled by search.

Rand Fishkin of SEOmoz, a well known SEO expert gave a talk in Germany recently about the future of link building and the importance of social signals to the influence of search rankings:

It's worth noting that Bing found Fishkin's talk valuable enough to share on its own blog.

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Atrial Fibrillation Raises Death Risk for Middle-Aged Women

By Kathleen Doheny
WebMD Health News

Reviewed by Elizabeth Klodas, MD, FACC

May 24, 2011 -- Otherwise healthy middle-aged women newly diagnosed with a heart rhythm problem known as atrial fibrillation are at increased risk of premature death, a study shows.

The study is published in the Journal of the American Medical Association.

Many studies have found older people with atrial fibrillation have a higher risk of dying. However, the risk linked with new-onset atrial fibrillation in middle-aged people has not been well studied, says researcher David Conen, MD, MPH, assistant professor of internal medicine at University Hospital, Basel, Switzerland.

Many Heart Patients Aren’t Taking Needed Drugs

May 10, 2011 -- Too few patients with stable coronary artery disease are taking recommended drugs that could help them avoid the need for procedures that open up clogged arteries, a study shows.

The study is published in TheJournal of the American Medical Association.

Less than half of the heart patients in the study with stable disease were taking antiplatelet drugs, statins, and beta-blockers before receiving stents or balloon angioplasty to open clogged blood vessels.

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SETI@home Following Up on Kepler Discoveries - The Planetary Society Blog | The Planetary Society

Remember SETI@home? The ground-breaking computing project is now taking a look at candidate Earth-like planets that have been detected by NASA's Kepler space telescope. Using the Green Bank radio telescope in West Virginia, SETI@home scientists are targeting eight stars that might harbor worlds conducive to life.
They are going to collect 24 hours of data with the steerable Green Bank instrument and, after a 'coarse analysis,' the data will be turned over to SETI@home volunteers to analyze in more detail on their home computers. They'll be looking for potential radio signals beamed across the galaxy by extraterrestrial civilizations."

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NASA Selects Next New Frontiers Mission - The Planetary Society Blog | The Planetary Society

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by Bruce Betts

NASA has selected the OSIRIS-REx mission as the next New Frontiers mission. OSIRIS-REx (Origins-Spectral Interpretation-Resource Identification-Security-Regolith Explorer) will be the first U.S. asteroid sample return. It is led by Principal Investigator Michael Drake at the University of Arizona.

I'm excited to say that the Planetary Society will also be involved with a number of activities to involve the public in the mission. As stated in the OSIRIS-REx Concept Study Report, Planetary Society "publishes OSIRIS-REx scientist- and engineer-authored articles; creates radio stories and holds interviews with OSIRS-REx personnel; collects names to be imprinted on a microchip and flown to RQ36 and back; runs the contest to name RQ36; holds a Planetfest at the time of asteroid sampling; and features images of RQ36 on the Planetary Society web site, and runs a 'choose your favorite OSIRIS-REx image' contest." More details on these activities will be coming out later.

Click to enlarge > OSIRIS-REx mission Conceptual image of OSIRIS-REx. Credit: NASA / Goddard / University of Arizona

After launching in 2016, OSIRIS-REx will approach asteroid 1999 RQ36 in 2019. 1999 RQ36 is a 560 meter carbonaceous asteroid. It is seen as a sample of the early, primitive solar system -- a time capsule of the early solar system -- and is therefore of great interest to scientists. The team seeks to bring back samples that will include organic materials, potentially the building blocks of life. By getting the samples directly, scientists get geologic context, and samples that have not been contaminated on Earth, unlike meteorites that come to Earth. OSIRIS-REx will return to Earth between 60 grams and 2 kilograms of material in 2023.

The University of Arizona is partnering with a wealth of other organizations. NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., will provide overall mission management, systems engineering, and safety and mission assurance. Lockheed Martin Space Systems in Denver will build the spacecraft. The mission, excluding the launch vehicle, is expected to cost approximately $800 million.

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