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   At least Google was first...

   

   Andrew Strasser, Oct 10th, 2005 @ 10:14pm

   
   

   I agree that searching the blogs is a horrible waste of resources. Though the translation of most languages by the page is absolutely ahead of it's time. Not perfected yet but by far an outstanding result of a corporate entity. Google.

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   The Juiciness

   

   dorpus, Oct 10th, 2005 @ 10:44pm

   
   

   In other countries with differing standards of journalist ethics, we can often find more terrible news -- like the starving Cambodian mother who tried to eat her daughter's finger. Villagers believe she is possessed by a devil.
   
   http://choxets.blog8.fc2.com/blog-entry-442.html
   

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   Search pattern languages

   

   Tim, Oct 11th, 2005 @ 1:45am

   
   

   Currently I see we have two languages for searching - free-text with Google's markup (`OR' and +/- and various other things), or technorati's tags system. Frankly, neither appeals all that much when you're looking at some yank teenager blethering on about her lipstick, or whatever the blogsphere is doing today.
   More to the point, there is still a dramatic difference between the number of people posting articles about a given topic, versus the proportion of people searching. For example, I wrote an article about the recent partial solar eclipse, tagged it `eclipse' in technorati; for a couple of hours, my post was top of the search pile for that tag. Over the course of the subsequent 5 days, 109 separate impressions have been made on the photo-gallery in question, of which 1 has come from someone following technorati; the rest was word of mouth, friends & cow-orkers of friends spreading the word. I deduce that people simply are not using technorati tags for searching, and of course the delay in getting google to index your site is prohibitive when it comes to getting highly placed for rapid-changing events.

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   But why?

   

   Ron, Oct 11th, 2005 @ 5:21am

   
   

   I'm not sure that I understand why anyone would want a blog search. I'm one of those strange people that actually lives in the real world, and only visits the virtual world for information or entertainment.
   
   But I wonder why anyone would want to search for what some random stranger says. I have always been free to listen to the rantings of anyone that I meet, but I find that I don't usually want to.
   
   And by searching for their blogs, I know even less about them than if I actually met them.....and I might end up reading something from an idiot like Dorpus!!

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   Great work

   

   Still, Feb 23rd, 2009 @ 12:59am

   
   

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   Good site

   

   Joe, Feb 23rd, 2009 @ 12:59am

   
   

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   Re: At least Google was first...

   

   Anonymous Coward, Feb 23rd, 2009 @ 1:03am

   
   

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