The Luxembourg-based Wikio has secured funding for €4 million ($5.3 million).
Wikio is like Digg + Google News + Technorati, still in its early phases but promises to lead the way in European Web 2.0 search technologies.
Wikio, launched in France last June, and currently operating sites in France, United States, Germany, Italy and Spain, is [...]
Technorati is a great blogsearch. There, I said it. I like Technorati. However, Technorati has hit some bad spots of late. They’ve lost employees, been overrun by splogs, and have had some recent acquisition deals go bad.
But, they just got substantial funding, so all is good for Technorati for the time being, I suppose.
Blog search [...]
Goldman, former Sr VP of Corporate and Business Development at Movielink and founder/CEO of Broadband Sports, Inc., has taken the position of President a Feedster.
“Feedster is well positioned to expand its leadership in search and syndication.” said Mr. Goldman. “With 41 million blogs and feeds being searched dynamically, Feedster provides consumers with the best [...]
Octora is a beta RSS search engine. You can input a keyword (tag) and the search engine will find all relevant RSS feeds for the keyword.
Try Octora at octora.com.
I’ve been frustrated with this more than once (read daily) and I really couldn’t put a finger on what it was that really made searching the wealth of information in the blogosphere so difficult. Steve Rubel has done a good, if pithy, job of explaining the segmented search problem:
Now how do you search the social [...]
Of all the blog search engines, Icerocket seems to get the highest marks on quality searches and uptime. They do a better than fair job of removing the splog returns as well.
Think Partnership (THK) has given them a letter of intent to purchase. I ‘think’ they have purchases a great search engine.
No word on [...]
Randy, at the RSS Blog, has more info on Technorati’s Performance of late. While Technorati says response time is down:
David Sifry: Since beginning our infrastructure improvements, Technorati’s uptime has improved significantly. [cut] According to GrabPerf,
even while our overall traffic has increased, our response times have
consistently decreased. [cut] The index is over 3 years old, [...]