Google Blog Search Passes Technorati In Visits

Dec 28, 2006 at 1:41pm ET by Barry Schwartz

Hitwise reports that Google Blog Search has passed Technorati in visits this week. Hitwise explains that when Google added a link from Google News to Google Blog Search in October, the traffic for Google Blog Search spiked by 168%. Hitwise reports that currently about 60% of Google Blog Search traffic comes from Google News referrals.

Barry Schwartz is Search Engine Land's News Editor and owns RustyBrick, a NY based web consulting firm. He also runs Search Engine Roundtable, a popular search blog on very advanced SEM topics. Barry's personal blog is named Cartoon Barry and he can be followed on Twitter here.

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ONE COMMENT ON Google Blog Search Passes Technorati In Visits

Michael Martinez, December 28th, 2006 at 2:41 pm ET:

This may explain why I keep getting run-time errors at Google Blogsearch. I’ve started using Ask’s Blogsearch more often the past week or so because Google just bombs out.

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