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Google's Blog Search
markpapadakis writes "Google BlogSearch beta is out. Clean UI, fast responses, not yet such a great index, but it is getting there. That's what you should find in the much-awaited new Google service. Some say Technorati and friends have been having nightmares about this very day."
governments use this to figure out which bloggers of their country are violating regulations ?
PS: Not referring to singapore case in particular.
I find it much more annoying to search on a topic only to have 10 websites repeating the content from Wikipedia. I know it's licensed under the GNU FDL, but give me a break! It's gotten to the stage where all of the results are JUST wikipedia mirrors
Yeah, it's weird what's being considered a blog. My comic ( http://www.qwantz.com/ ) is listed, and I would be the first to argue that there is a difference between a daily comic and a weblog.
I think what people would want more is a way to exclude blogs from regular Google searches - is this an option?
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If Technorati or other bloggers are having nightmares about blog search, it's way too late. Frankly, since having a successful blog is all about being read, I think that bloggers would clamor for good search tools.
Speaking of which, there's been a workshop on blogs and blog search at the past couple WWW conferences. Here's some links:
http://www.blogpulse.com/www2004-workshop.html
http://www.blogpulse.com/www2005-workshop.html
This new system works well and really shows the full potential of blogs.
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I did a search for my hometown, London, Ontario to see who is blogging.
http://blogsearch.google.com/blogsearch?hl=en&q=l
7 out of 10 were scraper sites built for adsense.
Looks like this great new search tool will make them money in the long run.
For better or worse, logs are a cultural sign of the times. Now instead of just 15 minutes of fame, you can be accessable to the world 24-7 with your own personal blog. Of course, that's 27-7 divided by 800 million, but still....
There was a time when "I Love Lucy" was min driviling, mindless entertainment (or for the Lucy fans, substitute "Gilligan's Island"). Now it's an important cultural icon. Who knows if, in the fullness of time, what Suzy did last night will be a simple embarrassment or a social revelation.
What would be really nice is some AI capability in the search engine that takes info from your personal profile and uses it to construct a rating of significance according to your own values. That might even be a reason to actually have a profile.
In theory, there's no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is.
when i google (the normal one, not blog) for "Technorati", ofcourse the first hit is their homepage, but under the search results i see an extra line:
Top 100 Blogs - About - Developers - Blog
Nice. Didn't notice that before. Is this also new?
Blogs have been misused to inflate certain search results, both by commercial and political entities. For instance, do a Google search on "failure" and look at what pops up first.
I'd like them to exclude pages that are nothing but results from other pages...arggg...how do these get any ranking??
So, search both the web and the blogsearch. There's an awful lot of useful information in the Google/Deja Usenet archive, but there's no clamour for those things to be included in the main search, because if you want that, all you have to do is click the appropriate word.
Is that really so difficult?
Athletic Scholarships to universities make as much sense as academic scholarships to sports teams.
No, news sites mostly sucked. A couple of the local ones were decent. WWLtv.com was pretty good, especially their forums(everyday people), and NOLA.com's forums were ok too. Of course, the traffic to them was heavy as all hell at times, which made it harder to deal with.
All of the big news sites were much more interested in sharing emotion than information. It took me days to find out anything about Harahan, where I live, and that's just a few minutes west of the city. And when I did, it wasn't from MSNBC, or a local news reporter. The info got out from people making cell phone calls to friends/family, and then those people posting information.
If you wanted to know what President Bush or Michael Brown was doing, you checked CNN.com. If you wanted to know whether or not your neighborhood flooded, you had to look a little futher.
One time I threw a brick at a duck.
today, that same search puts the U.S. Department of Commerce and the New Zealand Department of Conservation at the top.
likewise, a search for "Lawrence" had some blog at the top, and today we get Lawrence University, the Lawrence, KS newspaper, and the Lawrence Livermore laboratories.
the blogs still do show up on the front page, so clearly google's search algorithm needs more tuning -- but we are winning the battle.
bloggers are a group who openly and aggressively play games with google's site ranking algorithms in order to push their personal home pages to the front of the list for terms that people just aren't using to refer to them. it should come as no surprise that their annoying link-spamming will be countered as aggressively.
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I was curious about this service's updating policy, so I ran a simple search.
One of my friends has an omg lol emo account on LiveJournal, and a few months ago, they went on an omg friends only spree, protecting almost all of their entries.
I searched for their username on Google Blog Search, and it linked their blog - unsurprising. What was surprising was that it also linked to all of the protected entries that I could think of, even those that are currently inaccessable, should you click the links to the pages.
What concerns me about this is whether Google will ever clean its index of these results...admittedly, it will be entertaining if they do not, but when you or someone you care about does something stupid, like accidentally posting that e-mail that their boss sent around with the contact information intact publicly, then realizes their mistake and removes it, how long after that will Google retain the data?
It's only an insult if it's not true.