I’m not going to break this news, cause the company I work for, PodTech, is involved. But, at about 9:58 a.m. Pacific Time Jason Calacanis, senior Vice President at AOL and founder of Weblogsinc.com, announced something pretty interesting to the Blog Business Summit, where there are tons of people blogging.
This gives us a great opportunity to see how good the blog search engines work.
So, over the next few hours I’ll be watching these blog search engines to see how fast the news shows up:
Technorati blogsearch for Calacanis.
Google blogsearch for Calacanis.
Ask blogsearch for Calacanis.
Sphere blogsearch for Calacanis.
Icerocket’s blogsearch for Calacanis.
First report coming soon. It’ll be interesting to see how long the news takes to get to Digg and TechMeme too.
Google blogsearch wins. At 10:11 a.m. it is the only one to have this post from Tris Hussey up.
10:17: Technorati is second.
10:20: Ask has a link to my post, but not any others.
10:25: Interesting that lots of other people have posted, like Patrick McCarthy, who has a much more detailed post about Jason’s keynote here, who I’m sitting next to, but they aren’t yet showing up in any of the blog search engines.
10:27: Ask just pulled up a detailed, lengthy, post from Pro PR that hasn’t shown up on other engines yet. If you haven’t read yet, Jason gave one of the best keynotes I’ve heard anyone to and he said lots of controversial stuff, including calling investor Tim Draper out. The Pro PR post did a great job capturing it.
10:35: Drew Meyers blog about Jason’s keynote, also lengthy and detailed, showed up in Google Reader, but not on blog search engines yet.
10:38: Google Blog Search just got Patrick’s post. I posted that to my link blog.
10:41: Ask just got the Blog Business Summit’s post by Teresa Valdez Klein. Nice bulleted post.
10:46: IceRocket and Sphere sucks. Not a single post yet. They are the only blog search engine that doesn’t have a link to a single Calacanis post yet. UPDATE: Looks like I had a bad URL for Sphere.
10:48: Ask has Patrick’s post up.
10:50: Elizabeth Grigg’s favorite quotes from Jason’s keynote just showed up on Google Blogsearch. Dustin Luther’s post shows up in my comments as a Trackback, but not on any blog search engine.
10:52: Here’s the totals: Sphere, zero posts (bad); Technorati, two posts (OK); IceRocket, zero posts (bad); Google, four posts (good); Ask, five posts (best).
10:55 Wade Rocket posts in my comment that his post was posted at 10:02 and still isn’t showing up in any of the blog search engines.
11:00: Jason-Preston posted in my comments that his post hasn’t shown up yet either. Said “a solid and interesting keynote.”
11:04: Google links to Zaadz blog, who has the first picture I’ve seen.
11:05: Tris Hussey posted another post about Jason’s talk, but that one hasn’t shown up yet in blog search engines that I’ve seen.
11:06: It just showed up on TechMeme.
11:08: I don’t see it on Digg yet. Who’ll be first to submit the story for Digg?
Well, I’m done. It’ll be interesting to watch this over the next day or two.
12:46: let’s compare again. Sphere (3 links); IceRocket (6 links); Google (19 links); Ask (15 links, some duplicates); Technorati (14 links, more spam than the others).
Conclusion: Google BlogSearch is looking pretty darn good!
UPDATE: TailRank has more links to this than TechMeme.
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Robert,
Are the new Sun data centers shielded for EMP?
Just a thought.
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Robert,
Are the new Sun data centers shielded for EMP?
Just a thought.
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Russ: my dad worked on “star wars” satellite systems. He’d say “no.” 🙂
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Russ: my dad worked on “star wars” satellite systems. He’d say “no.” 🙂
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Kick Pat for me Robert – he’s a friend of mine. We both live in Eugene, Oregon – a hot spot for growing tech. companies. Pat works for RightMedia and I work for Palo Alto Software.
— Cale
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Kick Pat for me Robert – he’s a friend of mine. We both live in Eugene, Oregon – a hot spot for growing tech. companies. Pat works for RightMedia and I work for Palo Alto Software.
— Cale
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Cale: just showed him your post. He thought that was funny.
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Cale: just showed him your post. He thought that was funny.
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I posted on The New Marketing at 10:02, and we’re still not showing up on any of these searches. Gah.
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I posted on The New Marketing at 10:02, and we’re still not showing up on any of these searches. Gah.
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Do you have any idea what the default list of pinged sites is for WordPress?
I find it interesting that my post (Calacanis in the title twice) showed up nowhere.
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Do you have any idea what the default list of pinged sites is for WordPress?
I find it interesting that my post (Calacanis in the title twice) showed up nowhere.
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Answered my own question. Only Ping-o-matic by default, but for anyone else who hasn’t yet figured it out, you can add new ping-lines to the box under Options->Writing in the backend.
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Answered my own question. Only Ping-o-matic by default, but for anyone else who hasn’t yet figured it out, you can add new ping-lines to the box under Options->Writing in the backend.
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Would have been nice to hear from the kids in Bay Ridge….
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Would have been nice to hear from the kids in Bay Ridge….
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My post hasn’t shown up yet, but Diane Ensey’s post on the talk is in Technorati.
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My post hasn’t shown up yet, but Diane Ensey’s post on the talk is in Technorati.
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Well, as long as it’s coming out of GoDaddy, then I guess it’s okay. Just don’t forget to vote for better schools too. Congrats, guys. I assume that the sponsorship proceeds to charity thing will continue for all bloggers with net worth over $10 million?
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Well, as long as it’s coming out of GoDaddy, then I guess it’s okay. Just don’t forget to vote for better schools too. Congrats, guys. I assume that the sponsorship proceeds to charity thing will continue for all bloggers with net worth over $10 million?
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You’ve got a typo in the URL you used for Sphere. That should be:
http://www.sphere.com/search?datedrop=1&lang=en&sortby=rel&q=Calacanis&x=26&y=12
or just
http://www.sphere.com/search?q=Calacanis
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You’ve got a typo in the URL you used for Sphere. That should be:
http://www.sphere.com/search?datedrop=1&lang=en&sortby=rel&q=Calacanis&x=26&y=12
or just
http://www.sphere.com/search?q=Calacanis
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BBS: Jason Calacanis
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BBS: Jason Calacanis
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Martin, strange. I fixed that. Thanks. I also did another survey. I still like Google Blogsearch a lot better.
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Martin, strange. I fixed that. Thanks. I also did another survey. I still like Google Blogsearch a lot better.
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hey robert – but you still have the totals wrong – at 12:56, Sphere had 17 results.
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hey robert – but you still have the totals wrong – at 12:56, Sphere had 17 results.
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yo whats up
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yo whats up
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i got a free razr from this website and thought i would share 🙂
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i got a free razr from this website and thought i would share 🙂
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