Blogdex Adds New Features

Blogdex, if you haven't heard, is a site at MIT http://blogdex.media.mit.edu that tracks the popularity of links mentioned in Weblogs. From the front page of the site you can see the most popular links for the sites that Blogdex indexes (obviously it doesn't index everything.)

You can also submit your site to be added to Blogdex' crawler (be sure to review what kind of sites Blogdex is looking for) or search for an URL within the Blogdex index. You do that by using the shortest search term possible. (Thus, if you're searching for Yahoo.com links, you could search for just Yahoo.) You'll be given a list of links found in the Blogdex database.

You'll get a list of hyperlinks. Click on the link itself and you'll go to the site. But click on the info text to the far right of the link, and you'll get a full page of information about that particular URL. The information includes the first and most recent time it was spotted in the index, its position in the recent link list (if applicable), its position in the all-time link list, the number of links it currently has in the database, and the link text for that particular link.

If you're more interested in what other folks are finding popular, then check out the recent popular link list (754 links at this writing; http://blogdex.media.mit.edu/browseIndex.asp?idx=popular ) and the all time link list ( http://blogdex.media.mit.edu/browseIndex.asp?idx=total&idx=total , over 41000 links here.) Very interesting information here. Worth a look.

Also of note: Blogdex is going open source: http://sourceforge.net/projects/blogdex/

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