All Posts Tagged With: "Search Engines"

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Technorati successors - BlogPulse And PubSub?

The Blog Herald has just posted an article which confirms my suspicions that Technorati isn’t as useful a tool as it used to be. Whenever I try to see who is linking to my blog the results tend to be quite hard to follow and border on being gibberish.
I also don’t receive that much [...]

13Jul2005 | Everton | 3 comments | Continued
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Bloglines Citations

Just discovered a handy hint from Bloglines from Steve Rubel. If you add the following link to your toolbar, it will tell you who’s linking to any page on the Internet that you’re viewing.
Add this link for Citations
Does anyone know if Technorati do anything similar?

10Jul2005 | Everton | 0 comments | Continued
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Engadget using Technorati/Cosmos

After recently removing Trackbacks because of spam, Engadget have just added Technorati/Cosmos to their site.
I don’t reallly see though how this is better than trackbacks for controlling spam? Surely Cosmos can be abused the same way as Trackbacks?
I’ve also found Technorati to not be 100% reliable at picking up links.

31May2005 | Everton | 0 comments | Continued
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Ask Jeeves Has Portal Ambitions?

Interesting article on Silicon Valley Sleuth about Ask Jeeves internet ambitions following its acquisition of Excite Europe, and its own sale to IAC who also operate Expedia, Hotels.com and evite.com
Read the article here

23May2005 | Everton | 0 comments | Continued
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Add Technorati Search To Mozilla/Firefox

Must have tool for all bloggers. Add Technorati to your list of search engines by installing this cool plug-in. Thanks to WWWorker for the link

28Apr2005 | Everton | 0 comments | Continued
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Mirago

Over the last 7 days my top referrer has been Mirago, which seems to be some sort of UK regional search engine. I’ve never come across the company before - does anyone know anything about them?

27Apr2005 | Everton | 1 comment | Continued
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What Is The Google Sandbox?

What is the Google Sandbox?  How do I avoid it?  Does it even exist? 
These and other questions are answered in this great FAQ.

13Apr2005 | Everton | 0 comments | Continued
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IAC To Buy Ask Jeeves For US$1.85 billion

Media conglomerate IAC/InterActiveCorp agreed Monday to buy search and portal Web site operator Ask Jeeves Inc. in a stock-swap deal the companies valued at around US$1.85 billion.
AC Chairman and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Barry Diller said he sees Ask Jeeves as a company with “the potential to become one of the great brands on the [...]

22Mar2005 | Everton | 0 comments | Continued
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Blogging Search Engines To Challenge Google?

I found this article commenting on Ask Jeeves acquisition of Bloglines which I found extremely interesting. It argues that the line is blurring between Blog search engines and the traditional players and blogging search engines will eventually challenge the dominance of Google et al.

16Mar2005 | Everton | 3 comments | Continued
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