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TechWatching Blog Search is coming along…
Want to know what the tech blogosphere has said about Windows Vista in the past week? Click here to have a look.
TechWatching now surfaces the indexes that it uses for meme-tracking as a searchable database. Some compartive analysis:
- Its very vertical. This searches only those blogs that TechWatching indexes - about 225 as of this writing. This number will grow over time of course, but it will never have the breadth of say Google Blog Search. On the upside, results will be spam free and from “trusted” sources vetted by the entire tech blogosphere.
- Its not deep yet. TechWatching isn’t crawling sites - just following feeds. So the content is very chronologically shallow so far, going back only 7 days (that’s when the current database was rolled out). Of course, it gets deeper second by second, but if you’re looking for older stuff, its back to Google or Technorati.
- It indexes titles only. I’m trading efficiency for depth here, based on the assumption that if a blogger is writing about something for a feed-reading audience, they’re going to put their important topical keywords in their post titles. Undoubtedly some posts will fall through the cracks because of this - but FWIW, if a blogger is constantly obfuscating their posts with titles that bear at-best tangential relation to their post content, well… that’s annoying for feed scanning people too, not just robots.
I also built in a time-boxer today, so you can see posts from the last few hours, today, etc. Of course, the periods longer that two weeks don’t mean a lot as the index doesn’t go back that far yet….
Anyway - enjoy. I built this engine on top of TechWatching because I find Technorati frustrating and inconsistent, and lord only knows, the world needs an alternative to Google. Also, I believe in the power of focused verticals to deliver superior results.
More to follow - stay tuned.
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> I built this engine on top of TechWatching because I
> find Technorati frustrating and inconsistent
I’m sorry you’ve been frustrated by searching Technorati. We’ve been retooling a number of subsystems to better deal with scale and address the various coverage, recall, performance, index latency and quality metrics we aspire to. If there are specific problems you want to bring to our attention, we’re listening
-Ian
very interesting, but I don’t agree with you
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