Another Take on Better Blog Search
Figured it would only be a matter of time before people started talking more about better blog search (BBS) beyond Technorati, Blogdigger, etc. BusinessWeek's Blogspotting did an interview with Bloglines CEO Mark Fletcher. Among his suggestions to improve search are that “certain blogs, either highly trafficked or ranked by the individual user, would jump toward the top of the search results”. Fletcher's hitting exactly on what I've been harping on for months that there has to be a better mousetrap for blog search. Despite all the attention it receives, Technorati - with all due respect - is being overwhelmed by its willingness to post everything and anything. Someone really smart is going to come up with an algorith/methodology that combines a blog's traffic, relevancy and high ratings to product superior and effective blog search results. As it now stands, the blog search market is ripe for Google to steal the business. Anyone got any ideas?
Addendum: BusinessWeek's Stephen Baker has a story on the blog search market. A particularly interesting point to explain why Google, Yahoo, et al have yet to enter the blog search market is the blogosphere changes so often, it could be a challenge using traditional algorithms/methodologies.
July 14th, 2005 at 9:59 am
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-Randy