Friday, March 18, 2005

Of Vertical Search and Active and Inactive Blogs

I just read a posting from 3/16 on Threadwatch.org's site, www.threadwatch.org, entitled "Vertical Search creates buzz in silicon valley," which directly links to the article by Om Malick, http://www.gigaom.com/2005/03/16/3554/. Mr. Malick, actually adds in the original article, "Google seems to becoming quite worthless everyday given that blog entries are dominating the top results. Enter vertical search. "
Maybe that's because blog content is updated rapidly. It's fresh, it's new, it's often cutting edge and on top of the envelope-pushing verbage of the moment-- sometimes just what everyone wants to see. Apparently someone out there ought to be thanking the blog-buzzing for keeping the "engines" roaring, eh?

But, geez, just another post in Threadwatch for the same day and there's a comment linking to one of Technorati's commentator's suggesting that there's an overwhelming number of blogs that are virtually extinct, or inactive at the very least, http://battellemedia.com/cgi-bin/mt/talking-87.cgi?entry_id=1320. Threadwatch's comments on this are a pretty interesting read, too.

posted by jrotman @ 10:50 AM