MetaFilter posts tagged with searchengines and blogs

Your blog is their market research

jonson — Sun, 11 Sep 2005 22:47:11 -0800

Ice Rocket is a blog spidering search engine that seems designed to allow users to track trends over time (mentions, say, of "pepsi blue" vs "coke zero" over the last 60 days). It's an interesting, if highly unscientific, use of bloggers writings as informal market research. No word on how many blogs are in their index, nor whether they're collecting any available demographic data on the bloggers (where such information is even available, that is).

James Bachman — Mon, 16 Oct 2000 05:14:55 -0800

Somebody found my blog while searching for a 'doctor's surgery webpage'. AltaVista, Yahoo, Lycos -- has anyone ever found anything useful from any search engine ever? Really? I don't believe you. Never ever has any search engine -- not even lovely, nifty little Google -- given me what I want in any useful way whatsoever. You would not believe how long it took me to find a sodding picture of Steve McQueen smoking the other day. And for God's sake don't get me onto the utterly pointless localised versions or the abyssmal AltaVista picture search.

jeremy — Tue, 14 Mar 2000 15:56:36 -0800

Oh, shit.

triptych — Sat, 06 Nov 1999 22:24:52 -0800

A perfect complement to MetaFilter - a weblog metasearch tool. Found this on Scripting News.