[Eric]

Looks like Yahoo is now getting into the blog search biz. I knew it was only a matter of time. This is more proof that blogging is here to stay.

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Yahoo! Beta Testing Blog Search Application Sites

In the recent past, a news story came out that Yahoo! has begun testing a blog search application in its Korean blog site. Yahoo!, a leading global Internet company offers a range of features making it a one-stop shop for all the popular activities of the Internet. These features include Yahoo! Mail (a web-based e-mail service), Yahoo! Messenger (instant messaging client), online gaming, chat, news and information portals, online shopping and online auction facilities. Add to this array of features, the Blog Search. Yahoo! seems to be ready to challenge industry leader blog search site, Technorati.

The blog search technology is designed to let bloggers sign up to publish their weblogs. The technology boasts of various search tools that will enable blog visitors to retrieve content and images within weblogs, latest blog postings or pages marked as favorites.

Blogs are currently the rage in the Internet. Anybody with an Internet connection can publish a blog for the worldwide audience to see. At the beginning of 1999, there were only an estimated two or three dozen blogs in existence. As of July 2006, Technorati counted more than 50 million and still growing. In fact, 75 000 new blogs are created everyday.

[Ajay]

I really don't understand the real reason for having a blog search engine.

Technorati was there, then came google and now yahoo!

Why not just use your search engine, because they do a good job anyway!

[Eric]

Originally Posted by Ajay

I really don't understand the real reason for having a blog search engine.

Technorati was there, then came google and now yahoo!

Why not just use your search engine, because they do a good job anyway!

Blog search engines update their indexes much more frequently.

[Ajay]

Originally Posted by Eric

Blog search engines update their indexes much more frequently.

Is that documented somewhere?

[Eric]

Originally Posted by Ajay

Is that documented somewhere?

I'm sure there is, but you don't really need any documents to see it in action.

A search on Google for Zune yielded a #1 result that was last cached on 19-25-06.

A search on Technorati for Zune brought in a handful of results that had been published in the past half hour.

Regular search engine gives you results that are at least 5 days old, usually older although they are getting better at it. Blog search gives you results as they change. Pinging the blog search engine can make it nearly instant.

[Ajay]

Actually I was talking about Google search wrt Google Blog search and yahoo vs. yahoo blog search.

Technorati has a very active index.

[Eric]

Originally Posted by Ajay

Actually I was talking about Google search wrt Google Blog search and yahoo vs. yahoo blog search.

Technorati has a very active index.

It's fairly similar. In Google and Yahoo blog search you're getting results from only a few minutes ago. In most cases that is.

[Ajay]

BTW, what is the URL of Yahoo Blog search?

[Eric]

You'll want to go here.

EDIT: oops, that's the actual Yahoo blog.

Yahoo B search is still in Beta. :-)

[Ajay]

So where is Yahoo Blog Search?