After a long list of web search engines, and then music search engines, now we have blog search engines as well. Well, I am referring to Twingly! Try it!
First up, I am always thrilled to see my blog and posts featuring high on search engines. So, it was no different this time! My first attempt -- semicon -- threw up a lot of my current blog posts from my award winning blog (some more of shameless, self promotion, ;) ok!).
Some of the blog posts that showed up on page one, as per TwinglyRanks, were:
1. Reviewing global/Indian semicon industry in 2008 -- top posts! Well, this was also the top or first search result for semicon!
2. Semicon outlook 2009: Global market could be down 7pc or more.
3. Top 10 captivating moments in Indian semicon during 2008.
I was particularly pleased to see the third post (above) figuring in the search results. Tells me, Indian semiconductor industry is still in good health and attracting interest from all over!
Coming back to Twingly, it is a blog search engine featuring a spam-free, faceted, social search for the global blogosphere. The site claims that without any marketing, Twingly currently serves 25M+ search results per month, most through its API. Also, the Twingly Blogstream is used by 50 newspapers, magazines and TV channels in eight countries to get more attention from bloggers, generating 200M+ monthly widget views.
What I liked about Twingly is that the search results also link the user straight to my blog's RSS feeds! Somehow, it also throws up a blog profile for my blog. So, I imagine, it is the same for all of the other blogs. You can also get your search results as widget for your blog!
There are some other features like microblog search, ping your blog, etc. If you join, you can also create email alerts for blog updates.
However, adding the widgets is not so easy! For instance, my profile page shows options for three widgets -- Recent posts, Most linked posts, and Recent linking posts. However, instead of embedding easily into Blogger or Wordpress, the site asks you to add codes on to your blog's HTML page, which can be a challenge! And well, this made me NOT add the widget. Well, Twingly's worth a try!
To all of my Chinese friends from all over the world -- Kung Hei Fat Choy :) 恭喜發財
Sunday, January 25, 2009
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ReplyDeleteGreat to read such stuff on your blog. For soud like me who is not that tech savvy and has just started blogging, your blog serves like an encyclopedia that gives information about various tecnologies, blogs search engines etc. Bets wishes to you. Look forward to more info on your blog. Btw, why do you call this 'techfools' :)
Hahahahaha :) Actually, I am really very bad with giving names, hence, 'Fools', and Tech coz' it is still on various technology related stuff!
ReplyDeleteAlso, if you notice, my main blog has my own name, simply because I did not know what else to call it when I was starting it! ;)