What's with Technorati Keyword Search?
Yesterday, I was trying to find First Time Home Buyer blogs using Technorati ... if I were Real Estate 2.x , the title of this article would be Why Technorati Keyword Search Sucks.
When I first started blogging, I immediately realized Technorati was a faulty blog search engine that never worked as relevantly as google does with the typical search. Google unveiled blog search recently and it does work better than most and has become my bookmark. Here's my informal test on blog search engine relevancy:
After querying - first time home buyer - (no ""), I defined a direct hit as having relevant information for a first time home buyer and tracked just the first page results. I used "relevancy" as the search criteria when there was a choice between relevancy and date. Note many of the sites just served up shill ads, one didn't even serve up any blogs.
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Blog Search Engine |
% direct hit |
% real estate related |
Most relevant return |
Most irrelevant return |
| Technorati |
0% |
60% |
Exotic Loan Programs and Potential Foreclosures |
Why Communism Has (Ostensibly) Failed |
| Google blog search |
60% |
100% |
First Time Home Buyer Info | General RSS Discussions - Bad credit loan |
|
Blogger
blogsearch (similar returns as google) |
70% |
100% |
First Time Home Buyer Info |
General RSS Discussions - Bad credit loan |
|
Blogdigger (all returns accurate, but not from blogs) |
100% |
100% |
|
|
|
Blog
Search Engine (Shill for loan companies) |
0% |
90% |
|
for the first time in 8 years, I had the luxury of seeing Jordan |
|
Bloggernity (one real article and six shills) |
14% |
100% |
Home Seller Tips | Why you should buy in Valencia with Easy Property Spain |
|
Feedster (two mortgage ads, all else irrelevant) |
0% |
20% |
|
Perusing fly fishing articles |
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I use Google's blog search as well. However, I think most consumers would never think to use any blog-searching sites. Instead, they would just go to Yahoo! or Google.
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Agreed... the only way for the consumer to find the blog is if the blog gets highly placed organically over the seo optimized sites in the search engines. I think that's quite possible... I need an SEO expert to tell me... (Mary?)
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Maybe it is the cold weather here that keeps out mind sharp. People run searches and hit my blog. Almost 0% are finding me through "blog searches" Most folks think of blogs as on line journals and do not use them as a primary way of searching for information. My readers are coming is through my web site, google, msn, yahoo and a bunch of other main stream search engines. When I search for information on the web I never use the blog search tools because the regular search engines are better and will also give me blog posts.
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Thanks for checking out Blogdigger; I'm glad to see our results were relevant, we've worked really hard on that. We do index some non-blog content (such as news sites), but the majority of the sites in our index are blogs. If I can provide any further information, please feel free to contact me. Thanks!
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Greg, I've been checking the blog search space a bit more today and realize blogdigger seems unique... why is that? what's the secret sauce?
--pk
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Sorry for the delayed response; glad you like Blogdigger. We have focused very hard on keeping the quality of blogs very high by scrutinizing our index and what goes in, both in an automated and manual fashion. We've also worked really hard on making the data as accessible as possible by providing as many search features as possible. Hope this helps, thanks for checking Blogdigger out, tell your friends about us!
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Way to call out Technorati on it's garbage search engine...I thought I was doing something wrong!
BTW check out my blog/site, I think you'll find it worthy of your cause!
www.truthinlendingservices.com/blog
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GREAT blog Kevin... we're in tune... you're on the blogroll... Looking forward to further correspondence!
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