Del.icio.us now offers keyword search for its database of annotated bookmarks. Every search result page includes a list of related tags, providing an interesting snapshot of how the universe of del.icio.us users classifies you and your work. Top related tags for “Niall Kennedy”: rss blogs technorati blog blogging Tags: delicious, folksonomy…
Category Archives: Search
Google spam suite primer
Google provides a full suite of services for the entry-level blog spammer. There are plenty of legitimate uses for all of these Google services, but Google’s market-leading position in search creates a spam ecosystem that inflates corporate revenues, index size, and user data. Google’s blog hosting service, Blog*Spot, received a lot of attention this week as blogosphere neighbors threw up their arms in protest of the host, which is like the seedy motel at the edge of town that rents by the-hour. It’s cheap and inviting to those who know no better, but those in the know don’t want anything…
Matt Mullenweg on VeriSign’s move into the blog space
Matt Mullenweg recently posted his views on VeriSign moving into the blog space with its acquisition of Weblogs.com. Matt is a lead developer of WordPress, an open source blogging tool, and one of the developers of Ping-o-Matic, a ping relay service that currently forwards a blog update ping to over 20 destinations. Matt has some first-hand experience with the team at VeriSign. We should have been better prepared for this. Earlier in the year Verisign had the Boston Consulting Group calling people in the space trying to pick their brains, while at the same time refusing to reveal who they…
Yahoo! Blog Search
Yahoo! launched its blog search product tonight as a sub-property of Yahoo! News. Here is a results page on Yahoo! Blog Search for “Bush” for example. The content is also exposed on Yahoo! News Search result pages. Here is a results page on Yahoo! News search for “Bush” showing 4 results in the right sidebar. Yahoo! branded the new search as “Blog search” but it is obvious from the results that Yahoo! is currently focused on one file format: RSS. Every search result in my test searches includes a link to the source RSS feed. Yahoo! Search blog notes the…
Google Reader
Google just released their web-based feed reader named Google Reader. Users can login using their Google account and track web feeds in a two-column layout with a default sort of “relevance.” Google is not currently pulling from its archive of past blog entries and only displays the items currently present in the feed. The first column displays a list of subscribed feeds and switches to a list of posts when you click an item. Posts are displayed in the sidebar drawer using title and publication date only. The complete entry display contains the entry title, author, publication date, link, and…
Quotes from Terry Semel of Yahoo!
John Battelle interviewed Terry Semel this morning at Web 2.0. Below are some select quotes I found particularly interesting. If you look at Google as being more than search, “as a portal [Google] would probably be rated #4.” “So far [Google] seems to have no real plan, but maybe they do.” “We think the big change on the Internet is not just to get more and more unique users. As we go forward it’s more about a deeper experience, more time spent, and a deeper experience for users and advertisers.” Almost every session is mentioning Google even though there are…
Technorati clustered search
Technorati has combined keyword search and Blog Finder to enable clustered search across various blog-level topic areas. Searching for the information you care about can be a bit elusive. A gardener looking for the last information about a bush will be overwhelmed with information about George W. Restrict your search to gardening and you have some interesting results. You have a similar problem with the search term “Java.” Would you like information about coffee, the Indonesian island, or the programming language? You can combine advanced keyword search with advanced tag search for some even more interesting results. You can search…
Yahoo! acquires Upcoming.org
Yahoo! just announced they have acquired events site Upcoming.org and the three-man team of Andy Baio, Gordon Luk, and Leonard Lin. Upcoming is an events message board for individuals and companies, providing a way to publicize and discover events. Upcoming has a database of venues supplied by users, tags for events, as well as information about what events its members are attending and watching. Upcoming recently added a groups feature to allow private events and recurring distribution lists. Upcoming and its team will be integrated with Yahoo! Local. Yahoo! Local has a database of venues complete with reviews and merchant…
MSN Search takes market share from Google
According to OneStat over the last 8 months Google’s share of the search engine market has decreased 0.3% while MSN’s share of the same market increased 0.3%. Yahoo!’s market share remained stable. Could Google be losing a significant amount of search customers to MSN? Tags: google, msn, onestat…
Blogging and PR survey
Technorati and Edelman are partnering to help public relations and corporate communications in general better understand the preferences of bloggers. I’ve had a lot of bad experiences with PR pitches and there is definitely room for improvement. If you would like to help companies better tailor their methods and their approach to blogging you can share your opinions and answer a short survey. A bad PR agency e-mails me a press release asking if I would please post the press release on my blog. Good PR is when I am introduced to new things that solve a personal problem or…