Just a short note that I finally got my SmugMug site customized. It's actually fairly straight forward if one has the patience to read through "Help" carefully. In my book, SmugMug is a fantastic tool to present your pictures online in the best possible way.
November 09, 2010
September 15, 2005
Google launches blog search tool
One of my recent posts reported on the blog search engine Technorati which is a most useful tool to find quickly relevant information on your favorite topic out there in vast blogosphere. Not to be outdone by its competitors, Google has entered a beta version of its blog searching engine recently.To get the basics of what Google's Blog Search team has done, take a look at the FAQ list. I presume it would be blasphemous to even consider that Google would not also beat the competition in this field with their hands tied behind their back. You can search in any of 35 languages or perform a "SafeSearch" filtering out objectionable content. What is Google up to? If its trying to find out what consumers are really interested in and thus be able to predict consumer buying habits they may well be on their way to finding the holy grail of advertising. Keep watching.
As you would expect from Google, their blogsearchers are trawling the blogosphere 24/7. A new blog/website I put up yesterday on our rental home in Costa Smeralda Sardinia - Casa la Maddalena - made it right to the top of the list when I searched this morning. Chapeau, Google Blog Search!
September 10, 2005
Navigating the Blogosphere
Technorati Inc., started less than 3 years ago as one of several sites trying to put order into the burgeoning blogosphere of tens of million sites doubling about every six month with a search function, on September 2 launched a new search function by subject matters. I believe this offers an important step forward to make the blogging universe more accessible to clueless advertisers and the rest of us trawling for gems. The Blog Finder is Technorati's directory of blogs organized by subjects from "Apple" to "Nanotechnology" to "Venture Capital". My first impressions are that this approach offers superior results to simply "googlng" or using other blog specific search sites. Technorati recently upped its profile as its links to relevant blog posts now appear alongside articles on Newsweek and the Washington Post's sites. Want to add your blog to Technorati's Blog Finder? Here it is described how it's done.
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