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Latest blog entry as of July 02, 2005
I keep trying to work on an entry to close the loop on the search engine and links research but RSS news is getting in the way. Last week, it was Microsoft's welcome endorsement and a new set of extensions and this week, it's Apple and its announcement of a new specification to add more data to RSS feeds used for podcasting. All this is nice but it seems that we're seeing the beginning of a fairly new battle around RSS.
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Programming
The blogoshpere is buzzing about Microsoft's announced support for RSS. Here's a quick history of how they got there, and the good and bad on what they are adding to the standard.
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Programming
In the last entry on the subject, we took a look at how Technorati and Google compared. From there, we discovered that Technorati was getting roughly a fourth of the links Google could locate. Which brought up some interesting questions: could we rely on the Google numbers? Were they so much larger than any other search engine that we were building an unfair comparison? And, as some alert readers pointed in email, was Google under-reporting the number of links to a site? In order to answer some of those questions, I decided to build some more comparisons. So I decided to take a look at some of Google's competitors. Today, I'll go into how Yahoo! fared (Hint: I was surprised by the results).
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Citizen Media
Looking at data about the A-list, first in and of its own, and later as part of a wider scope made me wonder about the initial data set I was using. What does it mean to be on the Technorati 100? Is Technorati presenting an accurate representation of the world? And how does it compare against the wider world? So I decided to start gathering data from other search engines. In this entry, I will go into a more detailed analysis of that information and will attempt to answer some of the questions I raised above.
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Citizen Media