Apparently my ability to stay under the radar is more effective with some blog search engines than others.
When I read about the launch of Ask.com Blog Search, I thought "it's about f-ing time!" and ran over to kick the tires.
Apparently I kicked a bit too hard:
Just for reference, I check a few other blog search engines to see how many results that query returns:
- Tecnorati: 454,027
- Google: 776,718
- IceRocket: 269,908
- Feedster: 71,157
- Bloglines: 340,700 (!)
Hmm.
I think that Jeeves is still around and he's pissed off about something.
Update: It turns out that Jeeves was just messing with me. It seems to be working Just Fine now and I'm getting a chance to poke around at the service. Not bad so far.
Posted by jzawodn at June 01, 2006 12:10 PM
Not sure when or how you got those results. I found more than a few: http://www.ask.com/blogsearch?q=jeremy&t=a&qsrc=1&o=0
and on ask: 12,000,000
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Yesterday Caterina was talking to a coworker about outdoor activities and vacations past.
Interesting. My first name is too common, so I searched Ask's blog listings for my last name. My blog, which has a Google Pagerank of 6, first appears on page 5 of the search results. None of the higher results are real blogs.
Damn them! Damn them all to blog search engine hell!!! ;-)
Not only that, there are blatant dupes reported several times. I've got the same flickr photo turning up for every group it's been posted into.
*duh*
The funny thing now that this post is the first in the retured results :-)
I find Ask.com to be quite poor in all ways. I really wish it weren't so because the more competition amongst search engines the better. I'm particularly suprised because after viewing Ask.com's TV ads, I figured they might've gotten better. In my opinion, the TV ad money is wasted when you simply draw people to a site that's poor -- it'll be remembered and it's unlikely those same site visitors will return.
