Google Blog Search now indexes full content of blog posts
Google has revealed that they have changed the way they index blogs for their Google Blog Search service.
Until now, the service used the feeds provided by blogs to index them. This was a problem considering some blogs just provide partial feeds.
Google has now updated their [...]
Technorati Engage self-service advertising network launched
Blog search engine Technorati has announced that they have acquired AdEngage.
They are now launching a new self-service advertising network named Technorati Engage.
It is targeted at bloggers and social media networking sites.
Technorati wrote in a blog post about AdEngage:
AdEngage has been running since 2004, serves more than 12 billion ad [...]
Linus Torvalds starts blogging
Linus Torvalds has finally joined the blogosphere. He has started a ‘trial’ blog which is not going to be directly related to his involvement in Linux.
The blog is named Linus’ blog and it is more of a personal thing.
Torvalds said that he sees this blog as an experimental outlet for [...]
Google Blog Search: Now improved
Google has updated their Blog Search service to feature a new homepage which takes some inspirations from the Google News service.
The new home page of the Google Blog Search service now shows categories on the left side of the website.
Blog posts are now categorized as clusters in these categories.
This is [...]
Sergey Brin starts a personal blog named TOO
Google co-founder and one of the richest men in the world Sergey Brin has launched his personal blog on the web.
This blog is named TOO and it is hosted on Google’s Blogger service.
Brin said that this blog would be about his personal life.
In the first of the few [...]
Tatter and Company acquired by Google
Search engine giant Google already owns the Blogger.com blogging service.
They have now acquired South Korean blogging software company Tatter and Company.
Analysts say that this deal is aimed at expanding their presence in the fast growing South East Asian market.
The deal was confirmed in a blog post by TNC’s co-CEO [...]
Google sued in India for its Blogger service
Online privacy seems to be taking a hit in India as Google has now been sued by an Indian company to reveal the name of a blogger who they claim is defaming them.
Gremach Infrastructure Equipments & Projects has filed the lawsuit asking the courts to order Google to [...]
Google hits the 1 trillion unique URL mark on the web!
Search engine giant Google has noted in a blog post that their search engine crawlers have now seen more than 1 trillion unique URLs on the web.
This is a major milestone for the company’s search engine which had indexed one billion URLs by the year [...]
Twitter Search: Twitter acquires Summize
Micro blogging service Twitter has announced that they have acquired Summize.
The financial details have not been released.
Summize is a search engine service which caters to Twitter users.
With this, Twitter finally has search which is powered by Summize technology.
Twitter said that they had been talking with Summize since last couple of weeks [...]
Google updates Blogger in Draft
Google has updated their Blogger in Draft with lots of new features.
Google add new features to Blogger in Draft before they are implemented on their regular Blogging service at Blogger.com.
There are lots of new features including:
Webmaster Tools Verification
Star ratings
Import / export of blogs
Embedded comment form
New post editor
Checkout: Updates and Bug [...]
