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Google Launches Its Own Memetracker

• nikils 18y ago
  Somebody had suggested this feature on google news group on Nov-2007 http://groups.google.com/group/news-Suggestions/browse_thread/thread/a438c138161a33cc/f27160eeebe77f64 http://groups.google.com/group/news-Suggestions/browse_threa...
  • litewulf 18y ago
    Given how long it takes Google to build/test/whatever their products I bet they've been working on it since before blogs were even invented. :)
• adrianwaj 18y ago
  This is super good news, especially for when blogs start to geocode news and articles. I know that Google News has certain requirements that must be passed in order to be qualified to be linked from it. So too Techmeme is a human pre-qualified source of blogs and MSM. I wonder how democratic this Google Memetracker is? Can it work out the reliability of a blog just by who links to it or whatever other methods, without the human intervention seen on Techmeme? Give it two columns and I'll make it my homepage; ideally it should have a Tech news category too.
• ilamont 18y ago
  Unfortunately, the underlying problem which hurt the old Google blog search -- spam blogs -- hasn't been effectively addressed. Some of the secondary items in individual news blogs and many of the search results are just scraped content wrapped in AdSense and affiliate blocks.