Google's New Blog Tracking Service

Google launches a new blog search tool which organizes the news covered by weblogs. It divides the posts in categories and shows how many different blogs have written about a particular topic within what period of time.

clipped from afp.google.com Google launches blog tracking service SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) — Google has launched an enhanced blog tracking service that helps people mine a growing mountain of online commentary for gems worth reading. The Google Blog Search tool rolled out this week competes with Techmeme, Polymeme, Wikio and other "memetrackers" that sort and organize blog posts into categories. clipped from googleblog.blogspot.com Today, we're pleased to launch a new homepage for Google Blog Search so that you too can browse and discover the most interesting stories in the blogosphere. Adapting some of the technology pioneered by Google News, we're now showing categories on the left side of the website clipped from blogsearch.google.com Top Stories Politics US World Business Technology Video Games Science Entertainment Movies Television Sports clipped from googleblog.blogspot.com and organizing the blog posts within those categories into clusters, which are groupings of posts about the same story or event. clipped from 3.bp.blogspot.com

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Twingly a spam-free blog search engine

The Swedish startup Twingly.com just launched a blog engine, with in addition to a common unfiltered search the (default) option to search only spam-free blogs. Moreover on the site Twingly.com some widgets are available for bloggers and for registered users there is some extra functionality.

In the sidebar of this blog you find the Most linked posts and Recent linking posts widgets.

clipped from twingly.com What is Twingly? Twingly is a spam-free blog search engine. Our goal is to create the first and best spam-free search engine and to be the most innovative web startup in Europe. clipped from twingly.com Spam-free? Really? Yep, Twingly is (99,99%) spam-free. How do weaccomplish this stunning feat? Well, we work our way outwards from selected high quality blogs, discovering and including only those that are linked directly or indirectly to the quality “seed” blogs. Why use Twingly instead of Technorati, Google or Sphere? We develop the world’s best spam-free blog search engine. We strive to provide higher quality search results and better community features than any other engine. clipped from twingly.com Twingly Screensaver Beta Twingly screensaver is visualizing the global blog activity in real time. Forget RSS readers where you see only what you're interested in. With Twingly screensaver you get a 24/7 stream of all (viewer discretion advised) blog activity, straight to your screen.

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