Google Blog Search Sees Twitter Trends & Raises With Blog Search ‘Hot Queries’
Jul 2, 2009 at 3:52pm ET by Matt McGee
A lot of the innovation in search these days is all about What's happening right now? Twitter is the poster child where real-time search is concerned, and despite its ongoing spam problem, Twitter Trends has become one of the primary places to get a snapshot of what's happening now.
Google Blog Search is getting in the game with its announcement today of "Hot Queries," a new addition that appears in the upper right corner of the Google Blog Search home page. It shows 10 queries that are "happening now" -- or, "currently popular" in Google's words -- in Blog Search. What we don't know is if [...]
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Quietly, Google Updates Its Blog Search Algorithm
May 15, 2009 at 2:33am ET by Matt McGee
There's no official announcement (yet), but Google tells Search Engine Land that it's made several improvements under the hood of Google Blog Search.
In an email conversation, Google's Jeremy Hylton -- head of the search quality group in Google's New York office -- explained how the changes impact the "clusters" of stories that appear on the blog search home page.
"We're doing a better job of choosing the blog posts to include in clusters," Hylton says. "We're also working on changes to expand the number of posts we consider for clustering."
One of the algorithmic changes is aimed at [...]
Filed in: Features: General, Google: Blog Search, Top News
Google To ‘Integrate’ Microblogging?
May 8, 2009 at 3:52pm ET by Matt McGee
While Twitter is looking at ways to be more search-ey, Google is apparently thinking about ways to be more microbloggy. Buried in a Reuters article about Google's shareholders meeting yesterday is this paragraph about the company's interest in the social web:
"Company executives who appeared alongside Schmidt at the media briefing said Google was looking at ways to generate money from the surge of social networking activity on the Internet, as well as at ways of integrating microblogging capabilities, such as those popularized by Twitter, into its search product."
(emphasis is mine)
I [...]
Filed in: Google: Blog Search, Twitter
Google Fixes Link Operator In Blog Search
Apr 14, 2009 at 8:54am ET by Barry Schwartz
A couple weeks ago, we reported that Google fixed the blogroll indexing algorithm in Google Blog Search, but has not yet fixed the link operator, which returned links found in blogrolls. Google has recently updated the link operator for Blog Search to not count links in the blogroll for the link operator command in blog search.
As I reported at the Search Engine Roundtable this morning, Jeremy Hylton of Google said Google Blog Search "now drops most or all of the links that occur in the blogroll or in other parts of the page that are just boilerplate."
This issue dates back to early N [...]
Filed in: Google: Blog Search, Google: Web Search, Top News
Google Blog Search Fixing Blogroll Indexing Bug
Mar 27, 2009 at 1:28pm ET by Matt McGee
As Barry Schwartz points out today on Search Engine Roundtable, the Google Blog Search team is rolling out fixes to how it separates blogrolls from actual blog posts.
Back in December, we wrote about Google's switch to full-text indexing for Blog Search, but that led to problems identifying blogroll links as part of blog posts.
Barry points to a Google Groups discussion, where Google's Jeremy Hylton says:
"We have launched a ranking change that reduces the number of results that are returned because of blogroll matches. There are still problems to work out, but this change appears t [...]
Filed in: Google: Blog Search
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