Comments on: Since Yahoo can’t buy Google News, settles for second rate BuzzTracker instead http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20070914/4797/ Technology, music, video, art, news, reviews and muse on the web Wed, 08 Oct 2008 07:07:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2 By: Jerry Yang’s 100 day Yahoo plan includes Zimbra acquisition » Make You Go Hmm http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20070914/4797/#comment-636086 Jerry Yang’s 100 day Yahoo plan includes Zimbra acquisition » Make You Go Hmm Mon, 17 Sep 2007 22:18:47 +0000 http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20070914/4797/#comment-636086 [...] Yahoo acquisition seems more business-savvy than buying Buzztracker last week, but the price tag is higher too. Some $345 million higher (price on Buzztracker acquisition [...] […] Yahoo acquisition seems more business-savvy than buying Buzztracker last week, but the price tag is higher too. Some $345 million higher (price on Buzztracker acquisition […]

]]> By: Scott Lawton http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20070914/4797/#comment-635416 Scott Lawton Sat, 15 Sep 2007 21:47:47 +0000 http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20070914/4797/#comment-635416 This post is the only one I saw that did a side-by-side comparison! I summarized it and grabbed several other excerpts from around the blogosphere in my BuzzTracker roundup [see signature link] This post is the only one I saw that did a side-by-side comparison! I summarized it and grabbed several other excerpts from around the blogosphere in my BuzzTracker roundup [see signature link]

]]> By: Andy Beard http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20070914/4797/#comment-635204 Andy Beard Sat, 15 Sep 2007 12:32:29 +0000 http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20070914/4797/#comment-635204 They could just license or purchase Megite Their "Seek and Discover" isn't quite as useful as it probably could be with some refinement and more feeds, but their main meme trackers are on a par with Techmeme The problem with all these things is what they use to determine relevance. With Google it is primarily the title tag for both news and blog search, though there is some weighting given to sources when searching by relevance. I must confess to using blogsearch more than news They could just license or purchase Megite

Their “Seek and Discover” isn’t quite as useful as it probably could be with some refinement and more feeds, but their main meme trackers are on a par with Techmeme

The problem with all these things is what they use to determine relevance. With Google it is primarily the title tag for both news and blog search, though there is some weighting given to sources when searching by relevance.

I must confess to using blogsearch more than news

]]> By: valleyblogzine http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20070914/4797/#comment-634883 valleyblogzine Fri, 14 Sep 2007 18:59:21 +0000 http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20070914/4797/#comment-634883 Good post. On an aside the Y! News results look very relevant. http://news.search.yahoo.com/news/search?p=van+halen&c= Good post. On an aside the Y! News results look very relevant.

http://news.search.yahoo.com/news/search?p=van+halen&c=

]]> By: Were Techmeme and Sphere too greedy&#63 » mathewingram.com/work http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20070914/4797/#comment-634854 Were Techmeme and Sphere too greedy&#63 » mathewingram.com/work Fri, 14 Sep 2007 16:59:40 +0000 http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20070914/4797/#comment-634854 [...] the way Netscape is with Propeller. TDavid takes a look at how Buzztracker stacks up to Google News here. buzztracker, techmeme, Yahoo | Share This | Related [...] […] the way Netscape is with Propeller. TDavid takes a look at how Buzztracker stacks up to Google News here. buzztracker, techmeme, Yahoo | Share This | Related […]

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