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Google spam suite primer

Niall works for a technorati competitor, but he does an excellent job pointing up the flaws in google's ecosystem. The question, as always, is what is the alternative.

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Bud posted this on October 24, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

TIME.com: Blogging 2.0 -- Sep. 26, 2005 -- Page 1

"There are millions of weblogs (blogs for short) online, but many never get read. One reason: blog overload makes it hard to find the good stuff."

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Bud posted this on September 19, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

MBA Bootcamp Changes Local Web Search Landscape

We ran a bootcamp where Michigan MBAs used “Web 2.0” technologies to compete with a prominent local business for searches on its targeted keywords. Bootcamp sites beat the local company in just under half of the searches and placed on the first page o

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Bud posted this on August 12, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

The Dark Side of Technorati Tags

What works for photos doesn’t work for words.

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Bud posted this on August 2, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

Talk Digger: Check who is linking to you.

Talk Digger will ask to major search engines who links to a specific URL. The results will then be processed and displayed on Talk Digger.

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Bud posted this on August 1, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

When will blogging peak Jeremy asks

The services that aggregate bloggers' content are where the action is going to be now. Flickr. Technorati. Feedster. Pubsub. Bloglines. Blogpulse. Clusty. Blogdigger. IceRocket

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Bud posted this on July 21, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

Tag search at IceRocket

My friends over at IceRocket now have Tags… and they work!

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Bud posted this on July 20, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

More blog search engine discussion

Gary Price over on Search Engine Watch says he does all his blog searches with Clusty. A few people have emailed me about Clusty in the past 24 hours too. So I know it's getting more popular. So, let's try it out.

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Bud posted this on July 19, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

Which Blog is Tops in Search?

Yahoo's got an interesting experiment going. They want to know: do readers find blogs via links or through search?

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Bud posted this on July 18, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

Yahoo Search vs. Google and Technorati: Link Counts and Analysis

In what I'm sure will become a heavily linked to article, Tristan Louis offers up his recent analysis.

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Bud posted this on July 18, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

Sifry's Alerts: Scaling, performance, and plain old bug fixing

What a couple of months this has been! First, some stats on what’s going on in the blogosphere. Technorati is now tracking over 13.3 Million blogs, and 1.3 billion links.

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Bud posted this on July 18, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

Blog Search

The comments indicate some frustration with Technorati and rightly so.

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Bud posted this on July 18, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

Another CEO inspired by our CEO; Bloglines vs. Technorati

By the way, I've gotta say that Bloglines is kicking everyone's behind when doing searches for who is linking to a specific URL.

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Bud posted this on July 18, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

A Consuming Experience: Technorati tags: an introduction

A good resource on technorati tags. You can create a watchlist to follow tags.

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Bud posted this on February 27, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

Tracking Links Important To Our Conversation

A nice call to action for conversation tracking. It's hard if not impossible. Where is the business opportunity?

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Bud posted this on February 27, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

Where will the tag sets come from?

Is this just a recreation of technorati and/or trackback. Shelley Winters suggested tagback, and Don Park talked about the idea last fall. It sounds like trying to come up with a central classification scheme.

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Bud posted this on February 18, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

Daily Hits Via Technorati

Shows how to put the technorati tracked mentions of your posts on your blog.

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Bud posted this on February 8, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

Introducing: Tagback

A way of supporting conversations on the web. Also a nice way to spread the meme. But others have to catch on and do this by hand, a barrier.

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Bud posted this on February 8, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

CorporateBloggingBlog: Blog Overkill - And More

The interesting observation that Technorati has over 210K tags. One issue with technorati is that it is self-tagged. How I interpret my message vs. how others receive it.

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Bud posted this on February 3, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

Feedster redesign

Feedster is becoming more usable. Personally, I have found many of these services to be not usable at all, including technorati, feedster, and pubsub. Technorati has improved lately.

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Bud posted this on February 2, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

Technorati Tag Query API

Introduces a new MT plugin for technorati tags

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Bud posted this on January 29, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

Sifry's Alerts: Technorati Launches Tags

The technorati tag service seems to be a meta service pulling from other services' tags plus some opportunity for user contribution by putting tags in weblog posts. Maybe all of this manual effort will stop spamming.

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Bud posted this on January 17, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)