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Dec. 5, 2007 at 11:14am by Greg Sterling
Blog Search Engine Technorati Reinvents Itself Again
Blog search engine and news site Technorati has suffered various identity crises over the past couple of years as it seeks to fend off competition and angle toward an eventual acquisition. TechCrunch provides useful context and history for the latest re-imagining of the site as a hybrid blog and traditional...
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Nov. 5, 2007 at 9:23am by Greg Sterling
BuzzLogic Introduces "Conversational Ad Targeting" On Blogs
BuzzLogic started out offering analytics to identify the blogs that were having the greatest influence on particular topics or "conversations" online. Now the company is moving into the online advertising space. In a new product extension, BuzzLogic is enabling advertisers to target text or display ads on any blog within...
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Nov. 2, 2007 at 8:44am by Barry Schwartz
New York Times Adds BlogRunner To Technology Section
The New York Times’ Blogrunner—A Techmeme Killer? from TechCrunch shows that the New York Times has added BlogRunner headlines on the Technology main page. BlogRunner is very similar to Techmeme, where the system aggregates top news, and automatically tracks the discussion from around the web via linkage data. The New...
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Oct. 22, 2007 at 9:26am by Barry Schwartz
Getting On Top Of Techmeme
Robert Scoble has posted about two interesting videos he did about reverse engineering Techmeme. The two videos are Part I and Part II, with the first being about 6 minutes long and the second being about 25 minutes long. Robert explains how he feels Techmeme works and how you can...
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Oct. 4, 2007 at 8:17pm by Danny Sullivan
New List: Sites With Most Cumulative Diggs
This is the week for top lists, it seems. First, we had the Techmeme Leaderboard get launched (and now being debated again), then we got a list of the most mentioned sites on Digg. Now there's a third one -- sites with the most cumulative Diggs. More on both Digg...
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Sep. 11, 2007 at 8:43am by Barry Schwartz
Technorati Adds Topics To Home Page & Topic Pages
Technorati announced the addition of "Technorati Topics" to the home page and Technorati Topics landing pages. These topics are a way for Technorati to create a simpler category system for blogs they index. Technorati Topics are presented on the home page and updated dynamically as new blog posts or stories...
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May. 23, 2007 at 10:52am by Danny Sullivan
Technorati Blog Search Relaunches
Technorati has relaunched today, and I'm on a short day, so I can't dive in to play with it in depth. Below, I'll recap what some others are saying. add a few off-the-cuff remarks on blog search in general, plus comment on how Technorati continues to be masterful in working...
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Jan. 17, 2007 at 8:32am by Danny Sullivan
Q&A With Gabe Rivera, Creator Of Techmeme
Over the past decade, I've seen a lot of search tools that were supposed to transform my life. Few of them have. But Techmeme was one of those. When it kicked off back in September 2005, I wrote a review, gave it a preliminary thumbs-up and soon found myself...
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Jan. 15, 2007 at 7:30pm by Danny Sullivan
Greg Linden Mothballs Findory
I never got into Greg Linden's Findory service much. Now after three years, he's announced the personalized information service is effectively being mothballed. What's there should keep working, but he has no plans to expand or improve the service further. I may not have used Findory much, but I've continued...
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Dec. 28, 2006 at 1:41pm by Barry Schwartz
Google Blog Search Passes Technorati In Visits
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...
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Dec. 8, 2006 at 9:19am by Barry Schwartz
Baidu Launches Blog Search Engine In China
People's Daily Online reports Baidu has launched a blog search engine in China yesterday. The blog search engine is the first of its kind in China. Yu Jun, a senior executive with Baidu, said the service was based on a database of billions of websites, including all the blogs supported...
