Well, I gotta say, based on my little test Feedster is dead. It doesn’t report a single site back. Not good guys! (Update: Feedster reports its servers are being upgraded so can’t track new blogs at the moment).
Google’s blog search wins on sheer quantity (112 reported). At 10:28 a.m. pacific time. Note that Google’s blog search is DRAMATICALLY different than the main Google search engine. The main engine isn’t reporting any hits yet (neither does MSN or Yahoo). Yahoo’s main engine now is showing five results at 11:55 a.m. MSN and Google are still showing none.
Technorati is pretty good (97 reported). I like how Technorati looks, though, a lot better than Google and Technorati led last night in early returns.
IceRocket is reporting 66.
So, who has put the word brrreeeport on their blog but hasn’t shown up in Technorati or Google?
Update: Google lies. Er, stretches the truth again. Says “about 130 sites” but I count only 118. Technorati, on the other hand, is accurate and both says and reports 113 sites. So, Google isn’t ahead by many. Just makes you believe they are ahead.
Both Google and Technorati are about 7 days old for my stuff, so it’s not just the “brrreeeport” post that’s not up to date. It makes me wonder if the speed with which you’re linked traffic-related. Mine has a very small (though oddly consistent) number of daily page views.
Both Google and Technorati are about 7 days old for my stuff, so it’s not just the “brrreeeport” post that’s not up to date. It makes me wonder if the speed with which you’re linked traffic-related. Mine has a very small (though oddly consistent) number of daily page views.
[...] Robert Scoble is checking out blog search technology and reporting on results at http://scobleizer.wordpress.com/2006/02/14/brrreeeport-report/ [...]
Added brrreeeport at WebLogging.Org and pinged from tecnorati a couple of minutes ago
Added brrreeeport at WebLogging.Org and pinged from tecnorati a couple of minutes ago
I wonder what the effect would be as this gets localized. In Romanian, for example, the word would be brrraaaporte or brrreeepatare.
I wonder what the effect would be as this gets localized. In Romanian, for example, the word would be brrraaaporte or brrreeepatare.
You seem to have forgotten Blogdigger.com and Blogpulse.com
You seem to have forgotten Blogdigger.com and Blogpulse.com
A day late and a dollar short, here is where things stand for me: I’ve got results on Feedburner, Technorati, Google and Blogdigger. Still nothing on Icerocket.
This was a great experiment, Robert. Thanks for doing it. I’m sure our collective gratitude, reinforcing your own A-List blogger status, is a great bonus. Or, was it the plan all along? Either way, we all learned something.
What I really learned is that your experiment suggests something that I’ve suspected for a while: Tags are the latest in a long line of traffic aggregation tools which will be abused to the point of damaging their effectiveness.
Looking forward to the next one …
Regards,
~G~
A day late and a dollar short, here is where things stand for me: I’ve got results on Feedburner, Technorati, Google and Blogdigger. Still nothing on Icerocket.
This was a great experiment, Robert. Thanks for doing it. I’m sure our collective gratitude, reinforcing your own A-List blogger status, is a great bonus. Or, was it the plan all along? Either way, we all learned something.
What I really learned is that your experiment suggests something that I’ve suspected for a while: Tags are the latest in a long line of traffic aggregation tools which will be abused to the point of damaging their effectiveness.
Looking forward to the next one …
Regards,
~G~
brrreeeport
brrreeeport
Mr too! Mr. Scoble – can I(have an expense account)
Mr too! Mr. Scoble – can I(have an expense account)
Bjorn, Blogspot is owned by google, so they are likely to index you first; we picked you up at 04:28:21 pacific time, so 7 minutes after posting.
To get indexed more quickly you can ping us manually at:
http://technorati.com/ping.html
Bjorn, Blogspot is owned by google, so they are likely to index you first; we picked you up at 04:28:21 pacific time, so 7 minutes after posting.
To get indexed more quickly you can ping us manually at:
http://technorati.com/ping.html
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I’m sorry, what exactly is Brrreeeport means?
I’m sorry, what exactly is Brrreeeport means?
[...] He has done some other posts on the topic since then (here and here and here and here), and now WebProWorld says this: Scoble’s snarky experiment was in response to the notion of the supposed Blog Club, where A-list bloggers only link to each other and thereby keeping lesser-known bloggers out of the loop of recognition in typical Critical Theory style. [...]
[...] This is a nonsense post. Robert Scoble is conducting a little blog search experiment, calling on folks to use the term “brrreeeport” in their blogs, for the purpose of seeing how quickly the term spreads through the search engines. [...]
Brrreeeport has “Shot” Past Cheney
As the number one search on Technorati. Ironically enough Measure Map is also making a strong showing, related to the recent acquisition of the Adaptive Path tool “measure map” by Google. Ironic because measure map is a tool that helps blog…
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