Google Blogsearch - A Threat To Technorati?

Google’s new blogsearch launched this week. It is still in beta but it has one major advantage over Technorati - it is blazingly fast. While Google is still limited - it has only indexed blog posts back to March 2005, it seems to be using much the same algorithm and the advanced search seems to be minimalistically elegant.

Back in the late dot.bomb period, the first mover advantage used to be important. Which ever company was first to market, even if the product was shoddy was supposed to have had an advantage over the later entrants to the market. It didn’t always work out and some of the first movers learned the hard way that it is the pioneers that end up with the arrows in their backs.

While Google’s blogsearch does not have tags to classify blogs (Technorati’s main selling point), it does apply Google’s algorithm to the text.

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Written by John McCormac on September 16th, 2005 with comments disabled.
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