Greg Gershman has built a cool application of Google Earth. You can jump from Blogdigger Local search results to Google Earth and see markers for all of the blogs in your geo neighborhood. The result looks something like this: (That’s Greg’s image. Don’t have Google Earth running here, waiting for the OS X version. Impatiently.)… Read more ⇢

Interesting article in Sunday’s NYT about a Lawrence, Kansas paper including user-generated content in a big way: “I don’t think of us as being in the newspaper business,” said Mr. Simons, the editor and publisher of The Journal-World and the chairman of the World Company, the newspaper’s parent. “Information is our business and we’re trying… Read more ⇢

Danny Sullivan is skeptical about the accuracy of Google’s and Yahoo’s results counts, used by Tristan Louis in two studies, which concluded that Yahoo has better coverage of blogs than Google, which in turn has better coverage than Technorati. Danny posted an email conversation with Tristan about his study. It’s a little hard to follow… Read more ⇢

Dave Sifry is chiming in on some analysis done by Tristan Louis about how well Google, Yahoo and Technorati are covering the blogosphere. Briefly, here’s what Tristan did: He ran link: queries on Google, Yahoo and Technorati for the blogs in the Technorati Top 100 and recorded the number of results reported by each search… Read more ⇢

Great column on the state of search by James Fallows in today’s New York Times (online version here), entitled “Enough Keyword Searches, Just Answer My Question”. Fallows doesn’t mince words. Search engines are so powerful. And they are so pathetically weak … for anything but simple keyword queries, even the best search engines are surprisingly… Read more ⇢