Tag: blogsearch
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A sad day for Internet freedoms in China
If this were any other country you wouldn’t believe it but the Great Firewall of China has started re-directing traffic from the three major search engines (Yahoo!, Live.com and Google) to the Chinese owned search engine Baidu.com! Other sites such as YouTube.com and Google’s BlogSearch are reportedly also being re-directed. China has previously blocked sites…
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Technorati resurrects the Marquee tag…
Technorati have overhauled their site completely. Some of the changes are great and some we could do without, frankly! The best change is that they have drastically sped up the site. I dunno did they add more servers or simply optimise their queries (I suspect the latter) but the site and particularly searches are now…
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Your top Web 2.0 apps?
If we ignore the fact that the term Web 2.0 is controversial for all kinds of reasons and concentrate on the applications themselves, which Web 2.0 apps (using the broadest possible definition) do you use most? I use: my blog and podcast software all the time (they are run out of WordPress) my Flickr account…
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Google Blogsearch adds ping
Thanks to Niall Kennedy for pointing out Google’s new ping service. This is great – one of the biggest problems I had with Google’s blogsearch was how slow it was to pick up on posts. Several hours after posting an article, typically it still wasn’t up on Google whereas the post is often up on…
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Finally, an outstanding online RSS reader
I have had issues with Google Reader (Google’s online RSS/feed reader) in the past but in the latest update to Google Reader, released today most of those issues have been addressed. Lots of people are posting opinions on this from Marshall Kirkpatrick on TechCrunch to Robert Scoble on Scobleizer to Richard McManus on the ReadWrite…