Introduction. Search engines paved way for the new phenomenon of social media that in some cases also connects directly to blogging. Platforms such as Google, Facebook, WordPress, and Tumblr will be used to show the differences, similarities and potential that each of these brings to the online world. These methods may have differences in format, style, and the type of information that can be gathered form each, however, all of them connect on a fundamental level.
Search Engines. After the invention of the World Wide Web content was plentiful, the method to finding said content was not very applicable. Starting in the late 1990’s search engines like Planet Oasis were used to find information retaining relevant data through PPC methods and in 1998 Google was created. In 2004 Google became public and the worlds largest search engine. The main reason why Google works so well is because it provides a solution to immediate problems, issues, or concerns that basically no previous method of information gathering could preform. Now, in the year 2016, there are other competitor search engines like Bing (2009) or Yahoo! …show more content…
To start, the visitor volume for a Search engine far outweighs Social Media volume or blog volume. Commonly, search engines are used briefly but consistently everyday by just about anybody that has an Internet connection. Social Media differs from search engines and blogs based on the content that is allowed within the parameters of the site. For example, Twitter allows for 140-character post to describe what a person wants to share that generally comes with hash-tags (#) that will expand on that idea with further information linked somewhere else. Blogs allow the greatest creative freedom for those using them as it gives the blogger the power to choose where they are posting, what they are posting, and how they will post their thoughts or
Search Engines. After the invention of the World Wide Web content was plentiful, the method to finding said content was not very applicable. Starting in the late 1990’s search engines like Planet Oasis were used to find information retaining relevant data through PPC methods and in 1998 Google was created. In 2004 Google became public and the worlds largest search engine. The main reason why Google works so well is because it provides a solution to immediate problems, issues, or concerns that basically no previous method of information gathering could preform. Now, in the year 2016, there are other competitor search engines like Bing (2009) or Yahoo! …show more content…
To start, the visitor volume for a Search engine far outweighs Social Media volume or blog volume. Commonly, search engines are used briefly but consistently everyday by just about anybody that has an Internet connection. Social Media differs from search engines and blogs based on the content that is allowed within the parameters of the site. For example, Twitter allows for 140-character post to describe what a person wants to share that generally comes with hash-tags (#) that will expand on that idea with further information linked somewhere else. Blogs allow the greatest creative freedom for those using them as it gives the blogger the power to choose where they are posting, what they are posting, and how they will post their thoughts or