PC World's Search Engine Shoot-Out
PC World just published the results of their Search Engine Shoot-Out, comparing search results from various search verticals including video, images, blogs and local information. I'm very happy to report that Blogdigger faired fairly well, finishing third in the blog search category. While I'd obviously like to do better, we managed to beat out some of the more well-known players, which I'm happy about.
There is some good feedback in the article: PC World really liked our clean search results page; we've intentionally aimed at having a clear results page, and we're working on adding in access to our other search applications. I want to be able to get our blog, media and local results all on a single, clean results page, and that's what we're working on. On the negative side, we got dinged for being a bit slow to index new blog posts, which is a fair criticism, and why we're hoping to launch our new and improved crawler in a few weeks, which should pick up some of the slack. In the mean time, the best way to get your posts indexed as quickly as possible is to ping Blogdigger when you publish.
Make sure to check out the whole article, PC World's done a really good job in covering all the major search verticals. Take a look at the blog search results, as well as the test criteria (very well done, in my opinion). And thanks to PC World for including Blogdigger in the Shoot-Out!
There is some good feedback in the article: PC World really liked our clean search results page; we've intentionally aimed at having a clear results page, and we're working on adding in access to our other search applications. I want to be able to get our blog, media and local results all on a single, clean results page, and that's what we're working on. On the negative side, we got dinged for being a bit slow to index new blog posts, which is a fair criticism, and why we're hoping to launch our new and improved crawler in a few weeks, which should pick up some of the slack. In the mean time, the best way to get your posts indexed as quickly as possible is to ping Blogdigger when you publish.
Make sure to check out the whole article, PC World's done a really good job in covering all the major search verticals. Take a look at the blog search results, as well as the test criteria (very well done, in my opinion). And thanks to PC World for including Blogdigger in the Shoot-Out!
posted by Greg Gershman at 2:40 PM
1 Comments:
Congrats on the results! That really was a well-done article.
I was wondering if you wanted to add something to blogdigger - the last page of the article talked about how you use a very clean interface, whereas bloglines does some advertising for other services.
My own thought is that people are constantly looking out for quality blogs - I still am, for example, and an "Editor's picks" page might not be a bad idea. The reason why I bring this up is that as a blogger, I want to respond to others, but rarely do I find content that I can immediately sink my teeth into. I might just be uber-picky, I dunno, but I definitely think a more human approach to finding and spotlighting good blogs is always a good thing (Groups does seem to be a way to do this, I had better play with that more).
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