Within hours expect Google just launched Blog/RSS Search. The service is available at Google BlogSearch and Search.Blogger.Com. The latter is a Blogger specific version Blogger-branded UI of blogsearch. This is a move that preempts Yahoo’s pending launch of RSS Search, which is supposed to come sometime before the end of the month. This I am pretty sure will turn the heat up on the likes of Icerocket. More from the Search Engine Blog, and Niall Kennedy.
In More Search News:
* Snap.com, an IdeaLab company, is about to come out with a new shopping comparison channel, Snap Shopping. This is part of the continuing proliferation of cost-per-action model, meaning that advertisers only pay for qualified buyers, not web surfers. The site is here.
* Truveo, a pretty nifty video search service has launched. Founders include Tim Tuttle, formerly of Bang Networks, a data streaming start-up that didn’t go anywhere, but had cool technology. Advisors include Rajeev Motvani, a Stanford professor and search zen master how also advised Google founders back in the day.
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11:18 PM PT
[...] Om Malik points out that this Google announcement preempts an imminent Yahoo launch of RSS Search. Filed under: Internet Comments: [...]
2:26 AM PT
Goodbye, Technorati…
4:18 AM PT
Some tech/media/online community/citizen journalism bits
Google blog search launches in beta! More at Om Malik’s and at Paid Content. I have no opinion yet. Got…
5:00 AM PT
The Beginning of the End for Technorati?
You
knew it was only going to be a matter of time before Google moved into
the blog
search market. The question was whether it would be done through the
typical “beta” program or through an acquisition such as Technorati.
This issue has now been…
6:01 AM PT
[...] Om “Scoop” Malik reports that Google just launched its blog search. I put in my first query and what do I get back… Blogspot spam blogs peppered throughout. I’m getting these very rarely on Icerocket, PubSub, or Technorati. Maybe Google will now notice the problem it is fertilizing in its own backyard. Beta? You bet! [...]
7:21 AM PT
Google Blog Search Now Live
Google Blog Search is live.
Here is some early feedback and links to top bloggers first impressions.
10:37 AM PT
Welcome Google to Blog Search. Finally! (New York Rules Blog Search!)
Well, Google has finally released their Blog Search feature. We’ve been waiting for this for months after having first seen a demo back in the spring. Now, we know that the wait has been well worth it. They have done
1:29 PM PT
Snap is just cobranding with smarter.com for the comparison engine - its not actually developed or operate it
1:38 PM PT
Google Blog Search beta
Google Blog Search BetaLooks like Google has a blog search engine after all - Google Blog Search beta. The screenshot is a search on "voip blog". <click the image above for a larger view of Google Search Beta> I’m listed…
3:14 PM PT
very beta. I searched for Meebo which is currently your top post…you are not found
http://www.google.com/blogsearch?hl=en&q=Meebo&btnG=Search+Blogs&scoring=d
3:27 PM PT
there now.
5:14 PM PT
Google Blog Search … Yawn.
The big news of the day, of course, is Google Blog Search. Okay, granted this is a nice thing …
1:26 PM PT
[...] I am at the Search SIG down in Mountain View listening to the founders of some of the new vertical search engines including Healthline, Simply Hired, Trulia and Truveo. There were nearly 20% people in the room who were building search engines. When I asked these panelists whose search engines are basically are scraping other sites, cannibalizing the folks that provide the “content” for their sites, what was their exit strategy? Answer - dead silence. I was saying this earlier in the day, on this Web 2.0 highway, there are three exits: Microsoft, Yahoo and Google. And that simply sums up the single biggest problem with Web 2.0. Niall says Google mentioned every five minutes! [...]
8:56 AM PT
[...] Time Warner’s AOL has bought video search company, Truveo, according to Jeff Clavier’s blog. Recent partnership with Brightcove, and now Truveo, when married to TW’s own video efforts, seems like AOL would soon be, You Got Videos. Given that Google just invested a billion dollars, and AOL went and bought an outside video search company, doesn’t speak very highly of Google’s video search efforts. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but it seems its not as much as the $435 million TW paid for Advertising.com and more than what Jason got. Reuters says that the “The deal was the largest purchase by the Time Warner Inc. division in 2005 and smaller than the $435 million purchase of Advertising.com in 2004.” More here! [...]
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