Okay so I took some time to review the first 100 blogs on the Feedster 500 [top 500 blogs in popularity as Feedster sees it]. Let me tell you, we've got a long way to go in blog search, ranking and categorization... this list is a great example of just that.
WebProWorld The release]. "The ranking is achieved by taking into account factors such as the number of inbound links over time; if the blog has been recently updated; and the elimination of obvious non-blogs that have appeared on other top-blog lists... ...Our first iteration of this list solves the staleness problems and not-a-blog problems that others have faced." Uh, excuse me, no it doesn't? If non-blogs weren't even on the list then how in the heck can staff but that's not the url Feedster is using. DeviantArt has news and forums but I would hardly consider this site a blog. So scratch the number 2 site off the Feedster 500 list please. Jason Calcanis, I highly recommend you hang on to that Common Dreams, a news website that has RSS feeds. Should we consider that a blog? It's an Creative Commons. Again, they have a Report 23. Hype Non Conversations 30. Smoking Awful 36. MSN Channel 40. Liquid Hero 44. McSweeneys I'll stop at 50 but I could do more. The point of all of this is that we're nowhere close to where we need to be with blog search. Why do you think Google hasn't released a beta of their blog search engine offering? Cause this stuff is frickin hard, that's why!!!!! I wrote a piece last July about the link value differences between websites and blogs and never posted my findings but maybe now's the time. I'll be following this up with more of the issues associated with blog search as it stands today. Jason Calcanis, please hold onto your $yet. Jason Dowdell is a technology entrepreneur and operates theSuggest a Correction
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