Blogscope - New Blog Search Engine, some innovative ideas Options

[bragadocchio]

It's a research project from the University of Toronto, and is limited to blogspot blogs right now, but it has features that I wish that more well known blog search engines were using:

Blogscope

A paper about it is worth a look - Searching the Blogosphere

What makes it different?

You can indentify "bursts" of popularity for queries, as well as associated topics and keywords.

You can search within date ranges, and find those through the popularity graph it displays.

You can use the geo-search to identify were blogposts are coming from - though I'd love to see what those geo-located blog posts were.

[eKstreme]

Interesting. It seems to be tracking just blogspot.com subdomains.

Also, all keywords I looked at had a double-spike in popularity in the first half of April. Example: space vs food. Is this when they build their index? If so, I don't have faith in any of their data as any spike can mean simply a database update.

Pierre