Steve Rubel nails it when he says "The product leaves me largely cold" about the new Bloglines and Ask.com blog search. I found it a step backwards from the existing Bloglines search, which I had already written off as mostly broken, at best. But, of course, the blogosphere is ripe with BOGUmeister reviews about how cool this new search is. I have to wonder, if these reviewers even tried it before they wrote their blog entries.
My favorite part of the old Bloglines search was Bloglines Citations. This returned all the blog entries that were pointing to me. This same query now returns all sorts of weird stuff. If I do a search for simply kbcafe, then it also returns mostly my blog entries. I image that it's matching on the <link> or <author> element :-)
After democamp, a few of us geeks hanging at the local pub wondered what was happening with Bloglines and remarked that it had degraded considerabily since the Ask.com take-out. Now, we know what they've been up to and I'm personally disappointed.
--SterlingCamden
i'm not a big bloglines user so i don't have much experience with its previous search efforts. nevertheless, i found it fairly useful - at least more so than technorati, which consistently generates poor search research. just one man's opinion.....
mark
Mark,
I can't disagree there. Technorati is no better.
Randy