WSJ: Blog-only search engines popping up online
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| With the number of blogs estimated to be about 16.5 million and rising every day, consumers and Internet start-ups are finding ways to sort through the clutter, according to the Wall Street Journal (WSJ). Unlike search giants such as Google and Yahoo! that search billions of Web pages and, as of now, don't allow blog-only searches, new sites use a variety of Web-tracking tools to perform nearly real-time searches of new blog posts. For example, the most popular of these sites, Technorati.com, monitors blogs using a mechanism called "pinging," where bloggers send out an electronic notice called a ping when they finish posting. Some sites comb through news feeds, while others use automated Web crawlers to search for new entries, says WSJ. Other blog-searching sites include IceRocket.com, Feedster.com, DayPop.com, and |
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