These are the slides from the SxSW'10 panel on social search with Max Ventilla (@ventilla), Ash Rust (@ashrust), Scott Prindle (@prindlescott), Marc Vermut (@mvermut), and me!
Three flavors of social search
collective friend-filtered collaborative
Bedtime reading:
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/3_flavors_of_social_search_what_to_expect.php
PHOTOS BY CLAUDIA LIM, BREWBROOKS, http://whowantstobe.co.uk/bench/faq-en.php
Two main social strategies:
Ask the network Embark alone
PHOTO BY BENSPARK PHOTO BY US NATIONAL ARCHIVES
March
2010
Max Ventilla
mventilla@google.com, @ventilla, ventilla.posterous.com
Web Search is great for objective questions, but subjective
questions generate the majority of search revenues.
Queries Search quality
X00B/yr RPMs Examples
What is Einstein’s birthday?
~45% Great Low
Objective How much is the cheapest iPhone?
What’s a decent housekeeping service
in SF? How much should it cost for a
~30% small two bedroom place?
Research
What’s a good book to read about
~25% Romantic Poets?
Ok High
Opinion
Friends can answer subjective questions but…
• Unreliable — small number of friends available to you in
the moment
• Hard to keep up with what your extended network
knows about
• Social cost of asking for a favor
Aardvark is a communication tool…
..on IM …on mobile …on Twitter
…and on the web
..on email
Why social search?
• Users want personalized responses to questions
• Most content is still locked in peoples' heads
• Each individual’s network is growing exponentially
• Social intimacy makes information actionable
• Questions about how to spend your time and money are
subjective and highly lucrative
The Picture so Far
• Came out of stealth at SxSW 2009
• ~85% of questions answered (most in <5 mins)
• ~70% of answers rated 'good' (vs 'OK' or 'bad')
• ~45% of answers lead to cross-talk among users
• >50% of users have answered a question
• Average query length is 19 words (<3 on Google)
• ~65% of queries have a subjective element
blog.vark.com is a great resource.
Also, check out http://vark.com/aardvarkfinalwww2010.pdf
Some Things We’ve Learned
• Intimacy (more than authority) facilitates trust.
• Social context is different than social graph, and is frequently
sufficient.
• Speakers want to know who they are addressing.
• People do not need artificial incentives to be helpful if there's no
friction involved.
• People do not like receiving random questions but they don’t actually
know what’s in their profiles.
OneRiot
hi.
ash rust // director of search relevance
@ashrust
OneRiot
OneRiot is a realtime search engine. We help people find
what’s happening, right now.
Realtime Search: RiotWise: API:
Results ranked Monetizing the Over 100
for social web with partners
relevance using realtime syndicating our
our PulseRank advertising for search results
algorithm web & mobile and advertising
OneRiot
In addition to helping other search engines serve realtime results, OneRiot delivers
realtime information to over 100 apps and services
RiotFeeds
The Guardian
Scour . PopURLs . Digsby . Taptu . Sobees . Reed . Fastest Fox . UberTwitter . VideoSurf
Give customers something good to
talk about in social media, and they
will talk.
And that conversation becomes
content for social search, helping
to drive additional traffic and
conversation.
#socialsearch #littlehelpfromfriends
@brynn @ventilla @ashrust @prindlescott
with @mvermut
Notes de l'éditeur
I&#x2019;m going to give you a free-bie up front. One takeaway from this panel is that we need to start thinking about search as being **more than** a question in a box
-Google doesn&#x2019;t answer all of our questions
-and there are a number of reasons that search can become more personalized with real-time content and with a little help from our friends
I&#x2019;m going to give you a free-bie up front. One takeaway from this panel is that we need to start thinking about search as being **more than** a question in a box
-Google doesn&#x2019;t answer all of our questions
-and there are a number of reasons that search can become more personalized with real-time content and with a little help from our friends
I&#x2019;m going to give you a free-bie up front. One takeaway from this panel is that we need to start thinking about search as being **more than** a question in a box
-Google doesn&#x2019;t answer all of our questions
-and there are a number of reasons that search can become more personalized with real-time content and with a little help from our friends
I&#x2019;m going to give you a free-bie up front. One takeaway from this panel is that we need to start thinking about search as being **more than** a question in a box
-Google doesn&#x2019;t answer all of our questions
-and there are a number of reasons that search can become more personalized with real-time content and with a little help from our friends
-it&#x2019;s a process
-think of it like a path: with beginning, middle, and late phases
-and what people do in those phases are different and need different kinds of search support and/or help from friends
-it&#x2019;s a process
-think of it like a path: with beginning, middle, and late phases
-and what people do in those phases are different and need different kinds of search support and/or help from friends
-it&#x2019;s a process
-think of it like a path: with beginning, middle, and late phases
-and what people do in those phases are different and need different kinds of search support and/or help from friends
-it&#x2019;s a process
-think of it like a path: with beginning, middle, and late phases
-and what people do in those phases are different and need different kinds of search support and/or help from friends
-it&#x2019;s a process
-think of it like a path: with beginning, middle, and late phases
-and what people do in those phases are different and need different kinds of search support and/or help from friends
-it&#x2019;s a process
-think of it like a path: with beginning, middle, and late phases
-and what people do in those phases are different and need different kinds of search support and/or help from friends
-it&#x2019;s a process
-think of it like a path: with beginning, middle, and late phases
-and what people do in those phases are different and need different kinds of search support and/or help from friends
-it&#x2019;s a process
-think of it like a path: with beginning, middle, and late phases
-and what people do in those phases are different and need different kinds of search support and/or help from friends
-it&#x2019;s a process
-think of it like a path: with beginning, middle, and late phases
-and what people do in those phases are different and need different kinds of search support and/or help from friends
-it&#x2019;s a process
-think of it like a path: with beginning, middle, and late phases
-and what people do in those phases are different and need different kinds of search support and/or help from friends
-it&#x2019;s a process
-think of it like a path: with beginning, middle, and late phases
-and what people do in those phases are different and need different kinds of search support and/or help from friends
-it&#x2019;s a process
-think of it like a path: with beginning, middle, and late phases
-and what people do in those phases are different and need different kinds of search support and/or help from friends
-it&#x2019;s a process
-think of it like a path: with beginning, middle, and late phases
-and what people do in those phases are different and need different kinds of search support and/or help from friends
-I don&#x2019;t see there being any one thing that social search means, but I have identified 3 flavors of social search that are important
-collective, FF, collaborative
-the other thing I&#x2019;ve seeing in my research are the social strategies people use during search tasks
Of asker experiences: 41% take place on the web, 36% on iPhone, 34% over IM, 9% over Email, and 17% are multi-channel
Of answerer experiences, 42% take place over IM, 24% on iPhone, 23% on the web, and 15% over Email
Hello
Ash Rust
Director of search relevance at OneRiot &#x2013; we do realtime web search, and have the first market place to monetize the realtime web
We&#x2019;re a VC backed company of about 30 people &#x2013; based in Boulder Co, and San Francisco
When you think about oneriot, you should think of three things:
Realtime search, which helps people find the news stories and videos people are talking about right now
2Realtime advertising, which we just launched this january
And our open API, which gives third party developers easy access to realtime content
Here&#x2019;s a fun stat: Over 97% of our traffic comes to us via our API, which is being used by publishers like the guardian to build data visualizations, mobile search engines like taptu to help people on the go find realtime information, and social and twitter apps like Digsby to share the most popular new content on the web with their users
In January we launched RiotWise, our ad platform for the realtime web. RiotWise delivers links to new, high quality content from web publishers like NYT or Huff Post, matched in realtime to the trending topics within social networks. Ads share links to news and stories that the social web is buzzing about, making RiotWise a great match for social environments or realtime applications.