Jason Calacanis just announced something
I’m not going to break this news, cause the company I work for, PodTech, is involved. But, at about 9:58 a.m. Pacific Time Jason Calacanis, senior Vice President at AOL and founder of Weblogsinc.com, announced something pretty interesting to the Blog Business Summit, where there are tons of people blogging.
This gives us a great opportunity to see how good the blog search engines work.
So, over the next few hours I’ll be watching these blog search engines to see how fast the news shows up:
Technorati blogsearch for Calacanis.
Google blogsearch for Calacanis.
Ask blogsearch for Calacanis.
Sphere blogsearch for Calacanis.
Icerocket’s blogsearch for Calacanis.
First report coming soon. It’ll be interesting to see how long the news takes to get to Digg and TechMeme too.
Google blogsearch wins. At 10:11 a.m. it is the only one to have this post from Tris Hussey up.
10:17: Technorati is second.
10:20: Ask has a link to my post, but not any others.
10:25: Interesting that lots of other people have posted, like Patrick McCarthy, who has a much more detailed post about Jason’s keynote here, who I’m sitting next to, but they aren’t yet showing up in any of the blog search engines.
10:27: Ask just pulled up a detailed, lengthy, post from Pro PR that hasn’t shown up on other engines yet. If you haven’t read yet, Jason gave one of the best keynotes I’ve heard anyone to and he said lots of controversial stuff, including calling investor Tim Draper out. The Pro PR post did a great job capturing it.
10:35: Drew Meyers blog about Jason’s keynote, also lengthy and detailed, showed up in Google Reader, but not on blog search engines yet.
10:38: Google Blog Search just got Patrick’s post. I posted that to my link blog.
10:41: Ask just got the Blog Business Summit’s post by Teresa Valdez Klein. Nice bulleted post.
10:46: IceRocket and Sphere sucks. Not a single post yet. They are the only blog search engine that doesn’t have a link to a single Calacanis post yet. UPDATE: Looks like I had a bad URL for Sphere.
10:48: Ask has Patrick’s post up.
10:50: Elizabeth Grigg’s favorite quotes from Jason’s keynote just showed up on Google Blogsearch. Dustin Luther’s post shows up in my comments as a Trackback, but not on any blog search engine.
10:52: Here’s the totals: Sphere, zero posts (bad); Technorati, two posts (OK); IceRocket, zero posts (bad); Google, four posts (good); Ask, five posts (best).
10:55 Wade Rocket posts in my comment that his post was posted at 10:02 and still isn’t showing up in any of the blog search engines.
11:00: Jason-Preston posted in my comments that his post hasn’t shown up yet either. Said “a solid and interesting keynote.”
11:04: Google links to Zaadz blog, who has the first picture I’ve seen.
11:05: Tris Hussey posted another post about Jason’s talk, but that one hasn’t shown up yet in blog search engines that I’ve seen.
11:06: It just showed up on TechMeme.
11:08: I don’t see it on Digg yet. Who’ll be first to submit the story for Digg?
Well, I’m done. It’ll be interesting to watch this over the next day or two.
12:46: let’s compare again. Sphere (3 links); IceRocket (6 links); Google (19 links); Ask (15 links, some duplicates); Technorati (14 links, more spam than the others).
Conclusion: Google BlogSearch is looking pretty darn good!
UPDATE: TailRank has more links to this than TechMeme.
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October 26th, 2006 at 10:31 am
Robert,
Are the new Sun data centers shielded for EMP?
Just a thought.
October 26th, 2006 at 10:33 am
Russ: my dad worked on “star wars” satellite systems. He’d say “no.” :-)
October 26th, 2006 at 10:42 am
Kick Pat for me Robert - he’s a friend of mine. We both live in Eugene, Oregon - a hot spot for growing tech. companies. Pat works for RightMedia and I work for Palo Alto Software.
– Cale
October 26th, 2006 at 10:44 am
Cale: just showed him your post. He thought that was funny.
October 26th, 2006 at 10:50 am
[...] The first session led by Jason Calacanis was a great and very personal history about blogging. If I had to summarize his talk in a few words, it would be about the importance of authenticity. With a great list of speakers, (including Robert Scoble whose blogging about Jason’s announcement of a new podcast on PodTech) it should be a great couple of days! [...]
October 26th, 2006 at 10:55 am
I posted on The New Marketing at 10:02, and we’re still not showing up on any of these searches. Gah.
October 26th, 2006 at 10:57 am
Do you have any idea what the default list of pinged sites is for WordPress?
I find it interesting that my post (Calacanis in the title twice) showed up nowhere.
October 26th, 2006 at 11:07 am
Answered my own question. Only Ping-o-matic by default, but for anyone else who hasn’t yet figured it out, you can add new ping-lines to the box under Options->Writing in the backend.
October 26th, 2006 at 12:00 pm
[...] Robert Scoble and Jason Calacanis blogging side by side at the Blog Business Summit. [...]
October 26th, 2006 at 12:00 pm
Would have been nice to hear from the kids in Bay Ridge….
October 26th, 2006 at 12:07 pm
My post hasn’t shown up yet, but Diane Ensey’s post on the talk is in Technorati.
October 26th, 2006 at 12:17 pm
Well, as long as it’s coming out of GoDaddy, then I guess it’s okay. Just don’t forget to vote for better schools too. Congrats, guys. I assume that the sponsorship proceeds to charity thing will continue for all bloggers with net worth over $10 million?
October 26th, 2006 at 12:37 pm
You’ve got a typo in the URL you used for Sphere. That should be:
http://www.sphere.com/search?datedrop=1&lang=en&sortby=rel&q=Calacanis&x=26&y=12
or just
http://www.sphere.com/search?q=Calacanis
October 26th, 2006 at 12:51 pm
BBS: Jason Calacanis
October 26th, 2006 at 12:52 pm
Martin, strange. I fixed that. Thanks. I also did another survey. I still like Google Blogsearch a lot better.
October 26th, 2006 at 2:03 pm
hey robert - but you still have the totals wrong - at 12:56, Sphere had 17 results.
October 26th, 2006 at 6:58 pm
[...] That said, I have to be careful here. I haven’t heard the keynote myself, and am just going on what other bloggers are publishing about it. [...]
October 27th, 2006 at 11:22 am
[...] Jason Calacanis is up for sainthood with his plan to do a podcast to raise money to send a couple of kids to exclusive, poor schools. You missed the Gillmor Gang podcast where Calacanis called Dana Gardner an idiot for not agreeing with this as an approach to the problems in the public school system. BetterBadNews had a spot-on segment on this. [...]
October 27th, 2006 at 11:32 am
[...] One of the interesting things to note is that Robert gave RCG our first link yesterday. In talking with Robert last night he asked how much traffic his link had sent, and I said I hadn’t noticed a spike (i.e. I hadn’t been “scoblized“). I just checked my stats and he’s sent 5 hits (one of them being me!). I think this low number speaks to the importance of “quality” links where the blogger (no matter who it is) actively encourages their users to check out a post! (Don’t get me wrong, I loved getting the link from Robert, I was just surprised to find out how little traffic it sent!) [...]
November 7th, 2006 at 5:22 pm
yo whats up
November 8th, 2006 at 8:42 am
i got a free razr from this website and thought i would share :-)
November 13th, 2006 at 5:30 pm
[...] Let’s look at the BBC’s headlines. A bit about Syria; something about Bush and Iraq; Europe eases Algeria visa rules apparently; French rugby player receives knee injury. How could we tell which of these are interesting? Well we could use our favourite buzz aggregators which watch links from oodles of blogs. One problem with these is that they take time to update. 13 minutes is good, but not good enough (and that was Google). They rely on picking information from third parties (the blogger themselves). You have to accumulate the inbound blog links by visiting each and every newly posted blog (by the way, the pingmesh/pingosphere which is supposed to notify websites of post updates is absolutely crammed with spam). [...]