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May 02, 2006New Blog Search Engine -- Sphere
Since my experiences with Feedster went from exhilarating to depressing, I've been keeping my eyes peeled for new blogosphere search engines. And after trying out Sphere, I think I like it, but it does have some of the disadvantages of...
December 03, 2005Topix Adds Blogs To Their Searching
Slowly but surely catching up -- Topix has added blogs to their news search. Topix, as you might remember, breaks out their news by location and by topic, and now adds blogs to this mix of searching. This is kinda...
November 07, 2005PubSub Launches Community Lists
Steven at LibraryStuff has announced a new feature at PubSub: community lists. You can read about them at his blog: http://www.librarystuff.net/2005/11/pubsub-community-lists.html You know PubSub, right? It's a great way to track posts in the blogosphere as well as press releases,...
August 04, 2005Track Mentions in Blogs
Okay, a tool that searches a bunch of other search engines is called a metasearch engine. What's a tool that searches mentions of a specific URL from a variety of sources? Metamention? Anyway that's what Talk Digger ( http://talkdigger.com/ )...
June 22, 2005Technorati Gets a New Look
It was in beta for a little while, but it looks as if Technorati's new look has gone live at http://www.technorati.com . Aside from the page redesign, there's also most popular searches on the front page, as well as a...
June 11, 2005Bloglines Hits 500 Million Article Mark
Bloglines ( http://www.bloglines.com ) has announced that their index now contains 500 million blog and news feed articles. That's interesting, but what really blows my mind is that they doubled their index size between January and June of 2005. Also...
Continue reading "Bloglines Hits 500 Million Article Mark" » May 20, 2005Blogdigger Offering a Local Search
Blog search engine Blogdigger ( http://www.blogdigger.com ) continues to roll out the specialized search services with the launch of Blogdigger Local. You may access the new service at http://local.blogdigger.com . When I first tried this search (yesterday) it didn't work,...
May 16, 2005Technorati Tracking Ten Million Blogs
Wow! Congratulations to Technorati; they recently announced that they're tracking 10 million 'blogs. Wow! Ten million! The ten millionth 'blog is a blog from China that seems to be about glassblowing -- nifty --...
December 08, 2004Blogdigger Now Offering Media Search
What is it with the media searching all of a sudden? Jiminy crickets. Blogdigger recently dropped me a note letting me know that Blogdigger is now offering a media search at http://www.blogdigger.com/media/ . Here you may search for audio, video,...
November 19, 2004PubSub Is Now Tracking 6.5 million Blogs
Congrats to PubSub ( http://www.pubsub.com ). They're now tracking 6.5 million blogs. Eeek. See their announcement at http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/041118/nyth043_1.html ....
Continue reading "PubSub Is Now Tracking 6.5 million Blogs" » November 04, 2004Guess What Blog Search Engine Does?
You got it in one; Blog Search Engine searches blogs. Not only that it searches moblogs -- pictures from blogs. You can search it at http://www.blogsearchengine.com/ . (Note this site may be filtered for you; the front page links to...
September 14, 2004Another Buzz-Checking Application -- Blabble
This is the second buzz-checking application I've covered in a week or so. Is the next big blog problem going to be buzz spaham? Are we going to have people posting runaway praises of things in their 'blogs, or...
Continue reading "Another Buzz-Checking Application -- Blabble" » August 02, 2004Blogdigger's New Media Feeds
Well, I don't know how new it is, but it's new to me. Blogdigger, a Weblog search engine, is now offering some specialty media feeds. You can get 'em at http://www.blogdigger.com/media/ . These new feeds offer links to the latest...
July 07, 2004Technorati Tracks 3 Million 'Blogs
Congratulations to Technorati, which has tracked its three millionth Weblog.. May you track thirty million more! (At least.)...
June 14, 2004SortByDate Helps Track Keywords in Weblogs and News Sites
If my mail is any indication, the hot topic nowadays is how to use the power of RSS feeds to track specific topics instead of having to track specific blogs. SortByDate ( http://www.sortbydate.com) is sort of a pointer-engine; it gives...
Continue reading "SortByDate Helps Track Keywords in Weblogs and News Sites" » February 11, 2004Technorati Testing Keyword Search
If you know about blog searching, you probably know about Feedster. But do you know about Technorati? Technorati ( http://www.technorati.com ) allows you to specify a Weblog URL and see who's linking to that Weblog. But now they're also testing...
January 02, 2004List of Blog Search Engines Available
Are you having a hard time keeping up with all the weblog search engines available? Me too. Luckily Ari Paparo is making it a lot easier with the Big List of Blog Search Engines, now available at http://www.aripaparo.com/archive/000632.html . This...
October 23, 2003Blogrunner Launches "Portal" Of Weblog Resources
I hate the word portal; that's why I put it in quotes. It reminds me of the bad old days when you couldn't visit a search engine without getting the latest baseball scores and the weather in Frying Pan Landing....
Continue reading "Blogrunner Launches "Portal" Of Weblog Resources" » October 10, 2003It's a New Blog Search Engine: Bloogz
If you can't get enough of searching Weblogs, check out Bloogz at http://www.bloogz.com/ . The front page allows you to search Weblogs in five languages (Italian, English, German, Spanish, or French.) I can't find any indication of how many 'blogs...
July 23, 2003Rocketnews.com Now Offering Weblog Results
News search engine Rocketnews ( http://www.rocketnews.com ) is now offering weblogs as a search category. That makes the following categories available for search on their site: general, business/finance, science, technology, health, sports, entertainment, and weblogs. In addition to category you...
Continue reading "Rocketnews.com Now Offering Weblog Results" » March 06, 2003Daypop And Word-Bursty Goodness
Dan Chan of Daypop has added a couple of new features to the news and weblog search engine. Top Word Bursts, at http://www.daypop.com/burst/ , shows that words Daypop-indexed sites are using more frequently. The list provides the word and...
September 19, 2001Blogdex 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...
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