The brrreeeport report

by on February 13, 2006

OK, it’s been a little more than two hours since I asked people to put “brrreeeport” on their blogs to “mess with the man” and build a new kind of directory. So, in that time I went out for sushi with Jeff Julian and John Alexander, co-founders of Geeks with Blogs. Great guys and we had a good time catching up on the blogging world. Anyway, while I was out a bunch of people posted. Have you figured out what I was up to yet?

Why, of course! It was an opportunity for me to try the blog search engines out!

So, here’s the brrreeeport report. You can participate. Just add the word “brrreeeport” to your blog. Or, even better, do that and then give it a tag too. So, anyway, it’s 7:57 p.m. Pacific Time so let’s look at what the search engines have found so far.

Google’s Blog Search has found nine blogs so far.
IceRocket has found none.
Feedster has found none.
Technorati finds five blogs so far. But only one blog (mine) has tagged itself with brrreeeport.
UPDATE: Technorati now finds 11 blogs at 8:36 p.m. (while Google still only finds nine).
UPDATE 2: Technorati finds 39 posts, same as Google’s blog search at 11:09 p.m.

None of the big three’s main search engines have found any so far.

And that’s the latest from brrreeeport! :-)

  • Funny. I get an IE error when I try to open the Technorati's Tag on brrreeeport. Didn't happen the first time I tried it but it doesn now with regularity.
  • Christopher Coulter
    Do you find amusement from these pointlessly stupid geek tricks? Well, everyone needs a hobby, I guess...
  • Christopher: even better is that I get you to comment on these pointlessly stupid geek tricks. Now THAT is funny!
  • Christopher Coulter
    Well, glad that I am able to provide for such gleeful amusement.

    Went to the 'Carmina Burana' dance repertoire, and the Sacramento Theatre Company's production of Amadeus. More my style of amusement. But Technorati tricks ahoy!
  • IceRocket is up to 19 ... Feedster is still zilch
  • "UPDATE 2: Technorati finds 39 posts, same as Google’s blog search at 11:09 p.m."

    in conclusion, Google is scraping Technorati
  • /pd
    Nik:maybe technorati is scraping google !!
  • /pd
    You folks should also check out this link wrt to usablity sins 2.0 !! (And technorati response on this forum) too !!

    http://blog.outer-court.com/archive/2006-02-13-...

    Well you can see what happens elsewhere too
  • I'm in. I tried something similiar for a specific search engine that failed :)

    http://bermingham.blogspot.com/2005/10/hello-ma...
  • Joe Beaulaurier
    Yahoo!'s blog search (beta) is notably absent from your candidates:

    http://blog.news.search.yahoo.com/blog/search?p...
  • http://techandother.wordpress.com/2006/02/13/bl...

    Interesting to see who is watching who
  • Aaron
    This is very interesting. Google and MSN Search still bring up nothing, Yahoo finds a few but not even your original post. Icerocket however (and A9 using Icerocket) does find quite a bit. Does this mean the major search engines, are slow, ignore blogs/comments, are inaccurate, or give preference towards commercial news sites first?
  • It's amazing. Usually I can't find anything with Technorati. But it seems whenever an a-lister blogs about it, Technorati does extra-ordinarily well. Almost like someone was pulling the chains in the server room.
  • Posted, and also changed it three times....I want to see how good the tools are at picking up the changes too....
  • thats not really the test that matters. Only blog geeks really care that a post was caught in X min/sec/hours. Which means some of us have too much time on our hands.

    Now what will be interesting is if a splogger picks it up and republishes it all over the place.

    then you have something of interest
  • Emma
    google finds 158 blogs for brrreeeport
  • This is one fast travelling meme: Somebody's already registered brrreeeport.com -- better get your brrreeeport.org and brrreeeport.net while you can!

    Also, somebody's using it as a Google Adword as well!
  • Ok, I put Brrreeeport in my log. Told everybody to sit in their backyard and comtemplate their navels for the answer.

    Guess I will do that to figure how Pingback things.
  • Nothing about my log in any search engine. Then again I am have not been any search engine yet. The weblog has been alive for about 4 days now.

    Do I want to be found or not?
  • Net
    It seems like Scoble have nothing better to do over at Microsoft today than inventing a new word (brrreeeport), then tag it and see what happens. BTW, the brrreeeport sounds extremely familiar to a certain bodily sound that Adam Curry happens to let loose in the Daily Source Code on a regular basis like a 30 second spot...sponsored by (oh you know by whoom..). The worst thing is that even I find myself writing a post on it..Is this the sad true state of the blogosphere today, or is it just what makes people tick'?

    Looking at the more serious side of it (if there is any..) when I was running a blog campaign for Samsung Mobile's Anyfilms.net some time ago, I noticed that Google Blog Search by far out numbered Technorati and the others in tracking the posts. Technorati turned out to be really disappointing as a reliable tracking tool (which was a pity since I really like their service). The big surprise however, was MSN Search tracking far more blogs with the tag "anyfilms" than the others (after Google of course).
  • Brie?

    Freud says you eat too much cheese.
  • Robert,
    there has been a similar study in germany for quite a while, even accompanied by some serious research:
    http://www.kde.cs.uni-kassel.de/lehre/ss2005/go...
    http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/58647
    http://www.nigritudeultramarines.com/
  • I've done it un french...check this out http://gaelduval.blogs.com/gael_duval_blog/2006...
  • @Warner Crocker: Are you really surprised with IE errors? come on, that's part of the whole IE thing ;)
  • John
    Kinda funny this thing isnt?
    It show how the Internet is such a vast interconected space....
  • B42
    Still on breeevport??? Just starting to catch on, sorry I missed the sushi...
  • "I'm late, I'm late for a very important date..." name that tune? Ok, so I'll give it a mention. But this is why I hate BLOGS. Well, the 'net in general, now I have 16 zillion more links to follow. :
  • I'm sorry, what exactly is Brrreeeport means?
  • Dear Abby:
    Nobody likes me (sniff, sniff). Why even my biggest search engine hit [on Yahooo (been delisted from Google)], doesn't bring me any traffic anymore ('nude female midgets' ... http://anechoicroom.blogspot.com/2005/11/nude-f...). Am I still a blogger if no one visits and I get almost no MSN, Yahoo, or Technorati traffic as well?

    Signed, Lonely.
  • ...and for the British version of comment #99

    www.brrreeeport.co.uk

    for what it's worth (=nada)
  • hehe..I recommend http://www.searchxp.net -- Article Search engine
  • Its funny the amount of uproar this sort of thing causes. Some people really have boring days dont they.
  • I hope we're the only site in the world advertising for Brrreeeport tea!!
  • I think you have done an excellent job with your site. I will return in the near future.
  • :D It's amazing to see the power of Blogs and bloggers. They can create keywords that are actually effective just by gathering together and voicing their opinions.

    Very interesting experience. I will definitely be posting an article about this on my blog sometime soon.

    Thanks for the article. I enjoyed it.
    -Kate
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