Searching the Internet 006: Blog Searching (enhanced)
Episode 006 of Searching the Internet covers some search engines news and then concentrates on blog searches. The sites covered include Google, Yahoo, Ask, Gigablast as well as IceRocket, Clusty, Technorati, Sphere, Blogpulse, and Blogdigger.
00:00 Intro
Search Engine News
01:33 Google updates Macintosh software
02:09 Google Government Search
02:41 Google Sync Tools
03:34 Google Indexing Spam
03:34 Google words censored in China
05:03 Google Book Search for Shakespeare
06:02 Ask does blog search
06:44 Ask official search engine for “Treasure Hunters”
07:10 Ask blocking some searches
08:33 Yahoo Answers now international
Major Blog Search Engines
11:16 Google Blog Search
13:17 Yahoo Blog Search
14:35 Minezone’s Yahoo Blog Search Bookmarklet
15:10 Ask Blog Search
19:16 Gigablast Blog Search
Established Blog Search Engines
21:12 IceRocket Blog Search
24:12 Clusty Blog Search
26:06 Technorati Blog Search
New Blog Search Engines
30:35 Sphere Blog Search
33:26 Blogpulse Blog Search
35:42 Blogdigger Blog Search
37:14 Wrapup
| Site | Results | Freshness | First Spam | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 325,312 | 4 h | 30 | A- | |
| Yahoo | 89 | 7.5 h | 14 | C |
| Ask | 30,700 | 1 h | 19 | B+ |
| Gigablast | 41 | Dec 2005 | none | D |
| IceRocket | 51,301 | 1 h | 20 | A |
| Clusty | 248 | 49 min | 13 | B |
| Technorati | 14,584 | 39 min | 9 | B |
| Sphere | 38,359* | 42 min | 8 | B |
| Blogpulse | 8,348 | 1 day | 19 | B |
| Blogdigger | 5,691 | 2 h | 20 | C |
* = Sphere only goes back 4 months currently.
Search was performed on each search engine on June 26, 2006.
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