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Google Blogsearch: the Techmeme sapper

Quickly posting a comment that I made at RWW, on Google’s “techmeme killer” blogsearch:

I always thought Techmeme was running an “acquire me” strategy, or something - by staking out a niche and sitting on it. Otherwise, it didn’t seem to make any sense - Gabe obviously has an awesome technology which he never seemed to take to its logical conclusion. Deploying it in a few silos as he did and then just tweaking it meant that eventually it was going to get passed by someone with more reach/resources/marketing.

I’d say Techmeme needed to take funding and expand into a proper network about 24 months ago. Or, he needed to have gotten acquired somewhere along the way like blogdigger and the others. It will be interesting to see if the memeorandum family will drop off sharply, stagnate, or find a way to muster growth. Just my $0.02, from someone that dabbled in the memetracking space before giving up in frustration (all respect due to Gabe for crafting a great product).

I guess maybe this will finally spur tailrank to shut down. Just checked out tailrank and its down for a “db upgrade.” Hmmm.

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