Connecting The Irish Blogosphere

The one thing that the Irish blogosphere is missing is its own search engine. Are there enough Irish blogs out there to warrant one? It is a difficult question and there is only one way to find out the answer - build a search engine for the Irish blogosphere.

Building lists of websites for Irish websites is part of what WhoisIreland.com does. However blogs are not like ordinary brochureware websites which update on a yearly basis. Blogs can be updated on an hourly or daily basis. The standard way of blog notification is to ping a server to indicate that the blog has been updated. It is the most efficient method of monitoring a large number of blog updates.

At the moment, the exact number of Irish blogs is hard estimate. Is it hundreds or thousands? And most importantly for a search engine operator, how often do they update?

Tags: IrishBlogs , Search Engines, Irish Search Engines

Written by John McCormac on February 28th, 2005 with 32 comments.
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