"Blog Search uses a set of algorithms to try to determine the most popular stories in the blogosphere. We consider factors such as a blog's title and content, as well as its popularity throughout the rest of the blogging community. Then we display groups of posts that are closely related," explains the FAQ.
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It seems that Google Blog Search didn't select some authoritative blogs to be listed on the homepage and almost any blog post could be included in a Blog Search cluster. There are 11 categories: politics, US, world, business, technology, video games, science, entertainment, movies, television and sports, but they aren't equally represented.
Google shows a chart for the number of blog posts that discuss a story:
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Unfortunately, Google is not able to detect spam posts, plagiarism, forums or blog comments. Google Blog Search doesn't provide yet feeds for the top stories and the search results aren't clustered.
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The new Blog Search homepage is a decent alternative to the technology-focused Techmeme and to Technorati's front page. Hopefully, Google will filter the low-quality posts and it will integrate the service with Google News.
{ Thanks, Jonathan. }
Somebody had suggested this feature on google news group on Nov-2007 http://groups.google.com/group/news-Suggestions/browse_thread/thread/a438c138161a33cc/f27160eeebe77f64
ReplyDeleteGreat post. Thanks
ReplyDeletewell, a nice change but still I like Technorati more..
ReplyDeleteit is very interesting.....i am testing all posibillities
ReplyDeletea nice change but still I like Technorati more..
ReplyDeleteHopefully the algorithm gets more in depth so it can ensure that the most relevant posts are shown first.
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