Robert Scoble asked his blog readers
to incorporate the never-before-seen term "brrreeeport" into their blogs. Why? To see how effective and
speedily search engines would be in picking up new tags/terms from their blogs (and maybe, as one commenter pointed
out, to improve his new blog location's ranking - he's no dummy).Scoble posted his request at 5:22pm on 2/11/06. He reports five hours later:
- Google’s Blog Search has found nine blogs so far
- IceRocket found none
- Feedster found none
- Technorati found five
On 2/14/06 at 10:32am he posts the following stats:
- Google’s Blog Search found 112
- IceRocket found 66
- Feedster found 0
(but note says they are doing a system upgrade)
- Technorati found 97
- Yahoo's main search found 5
- Google's main search found 0
Notably absent from Scoble's radar was Yahoo! blog search (beta). So, in the interest of complete data, here are the counts as of the time of this post (2/15/06 at 8:00am)
- Y! Blog Search is found 34 sites (including 7 flickr images)
- Y!'s main search found 361
- Google’s
Blog Search found 267
- IceRocket
found 130
- Feedster found 211
- Technorati found 273
- Google's main search found
195
Admittedly, unless you knew to look for it, Y! Blog Search isn't going to be obvious to find since it is incorporated into Y! News Search. You have to first do a news search and then click on "More Blog results..." from the right column. Maybe it could be extracted from News Search so it can stand on its own?
1. How do you suggest we explain to users that blogs and news are so different that we want them to remember yet another place to go?
Don't think we haven't had that discussion (and many others like it). Would we be serving a need that Technorati isn't already?
Posted at 1:09PM on Feb 15th 2006 by Jeremy Zawodny