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80% of Google Buzz Powered by Bots & Feeds

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Google Buzz may be a centralized microblogging system, but for the most part, its not run by humans .. instead; robots. What better way for Google to gain access to real time Twitter data (if Microsoft ever buys Twitter and blocks Google access) than have Google users run auto tweeted material through Buzz? PostRank has an interesting study on the percentage of Buzz that is powered by feeds and bots. Turns out, approximately 60% of the content on Buzz is from Twitter! Many users have hooked up their accounts to automatically repost their content from Twitter either directly, through FriendFeed, or via another service. The runner up to Twitter? Another set of bots! This time, it’s automated alerts from feeds, e.g. CNN publishes a new story and a bot pushes it out to the Buzz stream. All in all, those two sources account for almost 90% of the Buzz stream, and even in the remainder there is a long tail of Google Latitude updates, ping.fm, and others. Unfortunately, there just doesn’t seem to be much original and/or human-generated content in Buzz. For one, I’d like to see a comparison between Buzz and Twitter on these stats, but for the most part, this is what I expected out of Buzz … another version of Friendfeed. How about you? Check out the SEO Tools guide at Search Engine Journal . 80% of Google Buzz Powered by Bots &

Google Answers Some Buzz Kills that We Buzzed Out

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The Google Buzz folks must have heard or read  all the noise about  Buzz kills that they are now answering some of these.  So Google announced three tweaks that it hopes to address some of the major concerns of the millions of Gmail users who jumped into the buzz hype.

new Buzz startup Google Answers Some Buzz Kills that We Buzzed Out

 

First of these tweaks is about auto-following. So instead of making you automatically follow people in your Gmail contacts, Google will instead give you a chance to select only those you want to follow. But this is true only for first time “buzzers.’

For the rest of us who are using buzz right now and have automatically followed all our Gmail contacts, Google will be back-rolling this feature to give us a second chance to review and unfollow people that we are already following.

Then Google is also cutting the Picasa Web Albums and Google Reader connection to Google Buzz.  This is one of the buzz kills I mentioned in my previous post. It’s a good thing that Google is responding to this concern as I don’t want to clutter up my already cluttered Google Reader account with feeds from blogs that I did not subscribe to.

Finally, Google has also added a Buzz tab to Gmail Setting. This means you cannow hide Buzz from Gmail or disable it completely.

So there. Some more tweaks that you want Google to do with Google Buzz?

 

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Google Answers Some Buzz Kills that We Buzzed Out

Google Answers Some Buzz Kills that We Buzzed Out

Google Answers Some Buzz Kills that We Buzzed Out

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Google Quickly Refines GBuzz as Millions Start Buzzing

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Much as I don’t want to get excited about this, I’m afraid that my initial impressions of Google Buzz may have been confirmed. According to the Gmail Blog, more than 9 million posts and comments have been created as millions started to jump into the latest social craze two days after it was launched. Looks like Google made a hit with Google Buzz.

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The Google folks must be smiling right now as they might have really done something good in Google Buzz. But then, since this is primarily a Gmail add-on, the statistics is not really surprising. Gmail users are automatically signed into Buzz  when it was rolled out. It was not an opt-in feature after all.

What Google should probably be taking note of is the fact that the Google Buzz mobile web app was able to generate 200 buzz  per minute. Now, that’s quite an achievement.

And to think that we’ve been hearing so many negative feedback about it. In fact, the feedback are so urgent that Google quickly rolled out some refinements to GBuzz.

These refinements include:

  1. More visible option to not show followers/people you follow on your public profile
  2. Ability to block anyone who starts following you
  3. More clarity on which of your followers/people you follow can appear on your public profile

These  are of course in direct answer to the most commented negative feature of Google Buzz pertaining  to user privacy.

So, what do you think? Is Google Buzz a hit or a miss? Too early to tell? Or you just don’t care at all?

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Google Quickly Refines GBuzz as Millions Start Buzzing

Google Quickly Refines GBuzz as Millions Start Buzzing

Google Quickly Refines GBuzz as Millions Start Buzzing

Google Quickly Refines GBuzz as Millions Start Buzzing Google Quickly Refines GBuzz as Millions Start Buzzing Google Quickly Refines GBuzz as Millions Start Buzzing Google Quickly Refines GBuzz as Millions Start Buzzing