Sphere — tuning for the Blogosphere
By Pranam Kolari on Saturday, October 8th, 2005 at 4:51 pm.
We all know how blog search engines have made themselves a name, by tuning traditional IR techniques to the Blogosphere. Enter Sphere. It is in “stealth mode” now — not even a Beta. Over at GigaOm, Om Malik has some interesting thoughts on Sphere. Some excerpts —
Think Blog Rank, Instead of Google’s Page Rank. The company has also taken a few steps to out-smart the spammers, and tend to push what seems like spam-blog way down the page. Not censuring but bringing up relevant content first. They have pronoun checker. Too many I’s could mean a personal blog, with less focused information. That has an impact on how the results show up on the page …The coolest feature they have is matching Blog content with relevant web articles from mainstream media.
The bottomline is of course tuning (there is still a lot of opporutunity here) relevancy to the Blogosphere. They are expected to launch their Beta soon. Current del.icio.us count — 3(only). Watch this space!
Related posts: • Uncloaking on Web 2.0; • State of the blogosphere; • Sifry’s state of the Blogosphere, part 2;
UMBC eBiquity Blog
October 10th, 2005 at 4:08 pm
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October 11th, 2005 at 5:17 pm
[…] A recent post we and others (here, here, here and here) made about Sphere - a new blog search engine based on initiation by Om Malik is an interesting example. Om, an A-List blogger now has a new post on yahoo blog search engine and how Sphere is better. Some readers would have noticed del.icio.us count at the bottom in our previous post. What was 3 then is now 47! Moreover it is (was) widely discussed on the blogosphere. […]