Alexa blog

I just noticed that the main news column on Alexa is powered by Blogger!

Looks like the Alexa team is digging Blog Search:
"I don't know about you, but I have been waiting for this feature for about a year now and am glad that it is finally here. Why do we need a blog search? Simple. Blogs are a quick way to get a feel for what people are thinking on any topic. Just type in your term and whammo! You get blog entry after blog entry from people like you and me spouting their opinions. Try it for yourself. Search for "ipod nano", the newest iPod, and see what people are saying. You'll get 17,840 blog entries of people talking about it."

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Blog Search: Redirects and Indexing

The great thing about launching Blog Search is that it's very easy to find out what people are saying about the product. And the feedback has been great. Plus, it means that we find out about potential issues right away.

Here are a couple questions we've seen:
  • "After clicking on a result in Blog Search, I'm being passed through a redirect. Why?"

  • Sadly, this wasn't part of an overly clever click-harvesting scheme. We had the redirects in place during testing to prevent referrer-leaking and simply didn't remove them prior to launch. But they should be gone in the next 24 hours ... which will have the advantage of improving click-through time.

  • "I included a robots.txt or <meta> tag to prevent the indexing of my blog. Why does it appear in Blog Search?"

  • As covered in the FAQ, Blog Search was designed to respect robots.txt and NOINDEX, NOFOLLOW meta tags. Unfortunately, we discovered a bug which caused some of these blogs to be indexed despite the presence of the meta tags.

    We are already in progress on removing from the index those blogs that were affected and apologize for the unintended exposure.

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Explore Blogs

How often do you update your blog? Weekly? Hourly? Secondly? Hundreds of new blog posts go through Blogger every minute of every day. That’s a lot of updating! We definitely have something to learn from you, because we seem to update our homepage 16-monthedly. (Which is a shame; it tends to be a good time.)

We think our homepage is great if you want to sign up or sign in, but what if you just like to watch? Tonight we’re changing things up to add a bunch of new ways for you, either deliberately or serendipitously, to find new and interesting blogs to read.

There’s the new Blog Search (which searches more than just Blogger). Type in a word or phrase to see people talk about it, or type in a URL to see people link to it. We’ve moved Blogs of Note from the depths of the dashboard to front-and-center, so you can see our selection of the most interesting Blogger blogs in zippy, side-scrolling goodness.

You can jump right into Next Blog, the I’m Feeling Lucky of the blogging world, and embark on an insightful journey (or just kill some time), and do it nearly spam-free. And, to top things off, we harnessed the power of the latest buzzwords to create a list of updated blogs that always stays fresh and new, no matter how long you leave your browser window open.

Poke around and enjoy the sites, but don’t forget to login and post something of your own. As Puffy McBlogsearch says, “my banner is teh rox0rs.”

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So long, and thanks for all the Knowledge

Jason Goldman saying goodbye to Blogger Buzz's founding father.

Good luck at Odeo, Biz!


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Great Use of Blogger Images

Photo-A-Day is a picture from each day of Tim Halberg's life from August 31, 2005 on. (Via being jennifer garrett - yet again, I know). I'll make this a blog of note tomorrow from the office if I can remember.

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Katrina Thanks Blog

Katrina Thanks is a public forum to express thanks to individuals, organizations, and countries that have assisted with relief efforts. They've got mail-to-blogger set up for easy posting and they're also using audioblogger if people prefer to phone in their posts. Here's their web feed.

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Editors' Blog

The UK newspaper The Guardian recently underwent a complete redesign and now the editors there are letting us behind the scenes with their Editors' Blog.
Welcome to the Editors' blog, where senior Guardian staff write about the decisions they make, and the reasons behind them. Today, Victor Keegan is following the production of the first Berliner edition of the Guardian, to be published tomorrow.

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