The Irish Blogosphere - How Big Is It?

Knowing the size of the Irish Blogosphere is an important part of building a search engine for Irish blogs. So far there is no accurate figure for the number of Irish blogs and the rate at which the IrishBlogs group on Yahoo Groups is growing suggests that it could be in the high hundreds. The IrishBlogs tag on Technorati shows only a small cross section of the Irish Blogosphere and depends mainly on the use of tags. These tags, without a quicktag solution (Wordpress) are cumbersome to include with each post.

The main WhoisIreland.com Irish search engine spiders are running here and I’ve just been checking a few keywords on the raw search database. This part of the index (the Irish ie/com/net/org/biz/info websites) is almost complete and the next section is the user/personal/subs websites. The surprising thing is that the term “blog” shows 1771 hits with at least 150 of these sites having their own distinct top level domain. The Irish blogosphere could be somewhat larger, though more fragmented, than was first thought.

Tags: IrishBlogs , Search Engines, Internet Statistics

Written by John McCormac on March 29th, 2005 with 5 comments.
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