Bloglines Developing a Blog Search Engine
In an interview, Mark Fletcher, the CEO of Bloglines (now a division of AskJeeves) says that his company will release a blog search engine this summer which will surpass the likes of Technorati, Feedster, and PubSub. “The challenge,” he says, “is to create world-class blog search, which we don’t think exists now.”
Bloglines is one of the most popular online news aggregator but faces strong competition from emerging players like Pluck, Newsgator, Microsoft’s Start.com and even Findory which learns from the articles you read and surfaces other interesting weblog posts and news articles.
Bloglines has one big advantage - It has a huge subscriber base, they know what blogs are popular and what posts are most frequently viewed or emailed. This could be potentially a very big parameter in ranking blogs. We can also see a site search box from Bloglines similar to Technorati Searchlet.
But how does Bloglines expect to make money ? Jack Krupansky has an interesting point - Google is now beta-testing AdSense ads that eventually I can put into my blogs and that users of Bloglines (and other aggregators) will then see. That will let me make a little money, but where’s Bloglines going to monetize their infrastructure and services?
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Amit Agarwal is a Desktop Search enthusiast and dedicated blogger - read his personal blog, The Indian Blogger
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Library clips :: Rojo: functionality and attention data :: January :: 2006 on May 2, 2006 at 8:27 pm
[…] Bloglines just haven’t been listening to their users like all good web 2.0 companies do…maybe they are concentrating on delivery and quality of results, because we hear they are developing a blog engine based on the feed sources from all Bloglines users subscriptions, I wonder how they will sort out native feeds from re-mixed feeds…anyhow they are due for some new features. I wrote a Bloglines Wishlist a while back and trackbacked Read/Write Web’s post about Bloglines feature requests that apparently the people at Bloglines would view, isn’t that what the Bloglines Forum is for…hmm. […]
Dirk Maßat on Dec 6, 2006 at 4:55 pm
A quite intresting idea is realized in this website! And a good and easy to handle design has been found too!
Kunstforum on Jan 10, 2008 at 9:37 am
There are many useful informations in this article. Thanks and greetings from Thuringia!
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