Yahoo’s new Site Explorer shows which pages are indexed from a specific domain, and which backlinks point to the domain. I’m a bit underwhelmed by what I see – couldn’t they just allow [site:] and [link:] operators in their web search?See Yahoo Site Explorer
For URL search, we've been looking closely at how we calculate the number of links and sources pointing to a blog, and we've made some tweaks to the display to better surface recent blog activity. Technorati now displays the total number of links from blogs over the last 6 months. Up until now, we displayed a count of all links from blog homepages, which tended to weight more highly blogs that have been around for a long time, even if they have not been posting recently.Filed in: technorati, search, blogsearch
The change affects how Technorati ranks its over 18.5 million blogs. Our new link counts expose more active blogs and rising stars, allowing readers to discover blogs currently receiving the attention of the blogosphere.
Steve Rubel points to a useful resource over at seomoz on Search Engine Ranking Factors which is one of the better descriptions of how Search Engines rank pages that I’ve seen recently. It lists 93 factors to keep in mind. Sounds like a lot to remember - so luckily they’ve arranged them into different levels of importance....
Maybe Google Inc is or was* merely naive when it comes to splogs. They allow one-click publishing (Blogger.com), one-click content aggregation (Google News alerts), and easy, context-sensitive advertising on top (AdSense). Some blogs even use Google Alerts hooked up to Blogger’s blog-by-email functionality to let Google be the author (you’ll recognize one of those blogs when you see them because they contain “unsubscribe” links within posts – that’s right, you can help destroy such blog by unsubscribing its alerts).
When Google blog search was released, I was amazed how much better it was then the other engines. Since then, Technorati has improved, IceRocket has improved and maybe now we have a four-way challenge with Bloglines (the best last month) and Google (the newcomer). Let's start it again.
Blogger is quick to say "This feature is not guaranteed to work every time you lose a post, but it's always worth a shot."
Beyond that, you can read more about Blogger's Recover Post feature.
Google sits at the center of the spam-blog universe, and with its new search engine, this could get worse. Here's why. Google already runs the biggest free blogging service in the world, Blogger. Since it's free, easy and popular, Blogger unwittingly hosts loads of the spam blogs. Google also operates the largest automatic ad-placement service, AdSense. That provides much of the revenue for spam blogs. And you can bet that the spammers are already gaming their blogs to climb toward the top of Google's new blog search.
The good news: Now that Google is in the middle of the spamosphere, perhaps it will focus its prodigious brainpower into vanquishing the spam bots and their pollution. For now, though, Google's entrée into blog search doesn't change much. I'll be using the engine from time to time, especially its useful tool to find relevant blogs. But even with Google in the mix, blog search is still very much a work in progress.
Check my categories on the right to see what I've done. Search your own URL any other keyword(s). No need for tagging your blog or re-tagging.Of course, in a desperate attempt to retain my audience as my workarounds become irrelevant, I would continue to argue that the increased traffic & exposure from tagging makes it worth the extra effort to use del.icio.us ;-)
I decided to rely on Blogger's built-in search engine to create the categories. That way, if people can read your blog, they can use your categories. Plus, you can have as many as you like without worrying about organization.**Update: These keywords do have the rel="tag" attribute & will be detected by technorati tags search. I mistakenly suggested otherwise**
I'm using Safari, and it appears to work, but it might not be . . . wait a sec. (laughing) Okay, it was forcing me to type the text in this tiny, single line text box-- and then after a long period (Downloaded 14 of 15 items, etc.) it suddenly expanded the text box to match the space of the dialog box. In other words, it's a blogger/safari issue, not an XBlogThis issue.By extension (no pun intended) I guess that means that categorytagblogthis and delicioustagblogthis will work in Safari too. I downloaded Opera the other day (when they were giving it away for free on their birthday...) Maybe I should try it in there too.
It started back when Google was just a thesis project, back when it was just a drop in the data sea. No one thought to stop it back then. That web site you had, the one you forgot about. Almost everyone’s got one of those, right? But Google doesn’t forget. Google’s studied that thing so many times that it’s studied its own caches of you. What do you figure happens, when a site gets so big that it’s bigger than the internet?”How big is the cache? Is it big enough that the "live" internet is only a part of it? Hmmmm.“It’s still a part of the internet, though.”
“No. Now, the internet is a part of Google.”
The man had a point.
