Syndicated content search - still broken

re: Syndicated content search - still broken

Eric Allam — Sun, 30 Jul 2006 20:39:01 GMT

Alex, I completely agree. Whenever I am writing a new blog post about something, I want to know what everyone else is saying about it, so I do searches. Notice the plurality their. Icerocket, technorati, google blog search, feedster. I have to search all 4 before I am comfortable with believing I have found all that I need to, but even then, I feel like something is missing. Technorati seems to be in the best position to dominate, but they need to work on their search algorithm, as well as their results display. I also like how icerocket shows you the day each entry was posted, giving you your 5th bullet point from above. I wouldn't be suprised if we saw a new player very soon. What is microsoft doing to win?

re: Syndicated content search - still broken

Chris Pirillo — Mon, 31 Jul 2006 08:15:51 GMT

http://tagjag.com/all/ado.net/rss - not perfect, but we're working on it. Our fetcher built on .NET, BTW.

re: Syndicated content search - still broken

BillyG — Tue, 01 Aug 2006 21:31:36 GMT

Technorati sucks period.

I used to have posts go immediately to Techno.

I just checked, and the most recent for my http://billy-girlardo/delicious/ daily blog posting is 12 days ago.

Pitiful.

Maybe it has something to the McAfee SiteAdvisor button not evaluating my sites, although their website says I'm fine (but who the heck goes to their site?).

Or maybe because Google says their last crawl of my sites came away with Not Found errors (thanks Yahoo!), even though the same sitemap.xml has been in existence for months with no prior problem!

Sorry to rant, just tired of the multiple unanswered emails from those damn techno people. They suck, and now their site is catering to the MySpace crowd, making it even worse.

There has to be a better way (thank God I don't rely on or have any advertising lol)!

Syndicated search engines broken - Part II

Alex Barnett blog — Wed, 02 Aug 2006 09:13:09 GMT

A few days ago I grumbled at the poor state of the search engines specializing in syndicated (RSS'd or...

re: Syndicated content search - still broken

Scott Johnson of FuzzyBlog, Ookles, Formerly Feedster — Wed, 02 Aug 2006 13:48:53 GMT

There's one thing to keep in mind -- the '.' character is OFTEN used as a terminator / word break character in search engines. When Microsoft named .NET and things like ado.net I remember thinking to myself "Oh crap" for just this reason. This is a very common problem -- marketers naming things something that just can't be searched

Before you condemn search engines for failing in general I'd try searching for a simple term that you know to be indexed.

One of the reasons I named my startup Ookles was because it was highly searchable. It wasn't the only reason but you can bet I considered it for every name we looked at.

' + title + ' - ' + basename(imgurl) + '(' + w + 'x' + h +')

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