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This is the first time I've ever heard of Postrank. Can someone provide a brief of what they do and why google would buy them?
by mey 15y ago
This is the first time I've ever heard of Postrank. Can someone provide a brief of what they do and why google would buy them?
- timdorr 15y agoThey look at your social media posts and provide analytics that measure how engaged people are (commenting, liking, retweeting, etc).
- Alex3917 15y agoIt seems like this functionality may ultimately be included in Google analytics.
- staunch 15y agoThis is why press releases usually include boilerplate describing each company.
- subbu 15y agoOne of the reasons could be its founder/CTO, Ilya Grigorik. Check out http://www.igvita.com/ http://www.igvita.com/. He is brilliant.
- grandalf 15y agoIlya is amazing. I wonder if this means that some Ruby will be creeping into the Google ecosystem.
- DanielRibeiro 15y agoCongrats to Ilya. His personal blog has some of the most inpiring articles in Ruby/AI and technichal stuff in general: http://www.igvita.com http://www.igvita.com
- igrigorik 15y agoThanks guys! Rest assured, I have no plans on retiring from keeping the blog going -- it's what got me here in the first place!
- samstokes 15y agoCongrats to the PostRank team - but I selfishly hope that Google's famous secrecy won't stop Ilya from blogging and releasing awesome open-source code!
- mey 15y agoThanks, adding to my rss stream
- hkarthik 15y agoAbsolutely. As a beginning Rubyist, I've learned a lot from Ilya's posts. Congrats to Ilya and the whole PostRank team!
- myth_drannon 15y agoAn old but descriptive article about them in Financial Post : http://www.financialpost.com/story.html?id=1554656 http://www.financialpost.com/story.html?id=1554656
- gabaix 15y agoI used PostRank when I built a reputation & SEO engine. Their product is amazing. It extracts all social signals it can find in the web. My guess is that Google, trying to scrape all social signals they could, decided to hire those guys to help them. One more weapon in their fight with Facebook.
- igrigorik 15y agoIn a nutshell: we aggregate user activity from dozens of social hubs, and use that data for analytics, benchmarking and so forth. So, if you think of links as "votes" as the core-data for Google's PageRank.. Than at PostRank we're extending that graph with dozens of other gestures: bookmarks, likes, comments, etc, and building our ranking on top of that! I'm sure you can imagine the myriad of ways of how that data can be applied in different contexts. Super excited to join Google and take it to the next level!
- anotherjesse 15y agoCongrats! Please don't stop blogging your technical deep dives! Your passion is an inspiration.
- holdenk 15y agoGive me a shout when your down in the SF bay area :)
- paulgb 15y agoCongrats Ilya! You'll be missed in Waterloo.