After my last posting I started to wonder how the weblog search market is carved up at the moment. Who are the players in the weblog-specific search space? comScore Media Metrix is not giving out any freebies these days, so I headed over to Alexa to check out their traffic rankings. DomainTraffic RankBloglines2635Technorati8995Feedster11232Ice Rocket14093DayPop23349…
Category Archives: Search
Ice Rocket Blog search
Search engine Ice Rocket now has a weblog specific search feature. I am receiving better keyword results than Technorati. A search on Ice Rocket for “Bush wired” (no quotes in the search) returns 164 results from the last seven days (October 1-8). The same search on Technorati returns 86 posts. Technorati is using a phrase search and Ice Rocket is looking for a post with both the words “Bush” and “wired.”…
Technorati Hackathon reflections
Last night Technorati held a Hackathon at their new offices near SBC Park. There were about 30 people in attendance including the Technorati crew. Some remote users joined via IRC. Good pizza, the beer did not run out, and the salad was almost untouched. Thanks to Liz Westover for putting together the event. Dave and Tantek spoke about Technorati and its APIs. We went around the room and introduced ourselves and our interests related to Technorati and the hackathon. Ideas were thrown on the whiteboard but by the end of the introductions no one was interested in splitting up into…
Evan Williams leaving Google
Evan Williams is leaving Google. Evan is the founder of Pyra Labs and creator of Blogger, which was sold to Google in 2003. Whatever Evan ends up doing it should be interesting. Good luck! I have enjoyed your pictures lately and I intend to stay tuned in many formats….
Feedster dinner
Feedster is hosting a blogger dinner on October 19 at Vino e Cucina at 7 p.m. Scott Johnson, Scott Rafer, and François Schiettecatte will be in attendance. I will be there as well. Should be an interesting crowd….
Terry Semel on acquisitions
Martha Lagace of HBS Working Knowledge summarized some of Yahoo! CEO Terry S. Semel’s experience with acquisitions. He talked about Yahoo!’s acquisitions of Overture and Inktomi, differing methods of negotiation, and knowing when to walk away when the deal gets too expensive. Semel spoke to members of the Harvard Business School Negotiation Club on September 20, 2004. [Inktomi] was scalable, and we also thought we could make it better by putting our engineering talent behind it. I knew as a negotiator—and my team knew—that we had to have this….
Technorati Hackathon
Technorati is hosting a hackathon next Wednesday starting at 7 p.m. in their new offices in San Francisco. Parking should be ample. If you take the N Judah to SBC Park (3rd and King) Technorati’s office is a one block walk. Tantek extends an invitation to web designers and web developers. it’s not just a night of API developers. I created a wiki page on the developers site to track topics. I would like to work on a RSS aggregator plugin that sorts feeds by source authority. Anyone else interested in such a project and would like to collaborate?…
Yahoo! web services wishlist
Jeremy asks about web services I would like to Yahoo! offer. How about being the my online storage and synchronization center? I could add an entry to my OS X address book and the entry is reflected in my Yahoo! Address Book. I could easily add photos to Yahoo! Photos from my desktop. Notepad becomes a general note center and I can even download the contents to an iPod. Briefcase can store some documents. Yahoo! makes money by selling extra storage….
Google Browser employees
NY Post: “Based on the half-dozen hires in recent weeks, Google appears to be planning to launch its own Web browser and other software products to challenge Microsoft.”…
A9.com version 1.0
Amazon introduces new features to its A9.com search engine tonight. The New York Times reports A9.com will offer users the ability to edit and store bookmarks, keep track of visited links, and take notes on Web pages….