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Five Years Ago This Week – 8/2/2003

August 2, 2008

photo credit: SideLong Every Saturday I’ll be reaching deep into the archives. Here is what I was writing about this coming week, five long years ago: Google Ads – I ran afoul of Google and had to delete this post. Feedster – Feedster started out as a great blog search engine but in this post [...]

Feedster

August 3, 2003

Feedster bills itself as the search engine for “The Changing Web.” When it first came out I completely agreed with that – I found it amazingly useful for simply and easily finding out what people in the blog world have been writing about recently. In my opinion there is a market for a search engine [...]

Backloading Feedster

July 11, 2003

Feedster is a search engine for weblogs. It uses RSS feeds to build an index of what is being blogged about and these days that means a ton of interesting new stuff. I’m still a Google Guy but I’m using Feedster more and more, particularly when I am interested in what people are writing about [...]

Technorati Pinger

July 6, 2003

Technorati now supports direct pinging on updates as described by David Sifry in New Technorati Pinger is active: Hot ‘n fresh weblog indexing. Previously he was relying on pings to services such as www.weblogs.com and www.blo.gs to determine which sites to index but now you can tell Technorati directly that something has been updated on [...]