Google Blogsearch Gets Pingable - Trouble For Technorati?

A post on Tom Raftery’s blog points to a very interesting development in the Blogosphere. Google has announced that bloggers can now ping it directly for inclusion in its blogsearch index. This move is interesting because it means that Google is taking blogging seriously. It also could spell trouble for Technorati and other blog search operations.

This blog seems to be having problems with Technorati. It fails to update information about it despite being pinged. And e-mails to its support desk go unanswered. Now that Google is in the game, the writing may be on the wall for blog aggregators and blog search sites. And having blogs integrated into Google provides a one stop shop for searchers - it has the audience that these other blog search sites do not.

Written by John McCormac on October 10th, 2006 with 2 comments.
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Get your own gravatar by visiting gravatar.com Tom Raftery
#1. October 10th, 2006, at 9:12 PM.

John - thanks for the link.

I have tried Google’s BlogSearch and since they implemented the ping service the results are significantly better.

Tom.

Get your own gravatar by visiting gravatar.com John McCormac
#2. October 10th, 2006, at 9:32 PM.

It is very fast Tom,
I think it is going to be serious competition for the blog aggregators because it will be difficult to match Google’s reach and speed. The big question will be whether it will be gamed by the sploggers.

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