Archive: May, 2006

Just a quick one here. The rumor mill is whispering about a possible stake buy into Yahoo by Microsoft in an attempt to compete with Google. Apparently talks have been going on between the two companies over the past year. The deal could see MS sell their MSN Online Network to Yahoo for a slice of the Yahoo pie.

Every man and his dog seem to be running a blog nowadays, and for good reason. Blogs are a great way to get your message out and indexed almost immediately, which will help drive potential traffic to your website (for more information about the importance of blogs, check out this article). Yet, because countless blogs are shot into the blogsphere everyday, every minute, every second, there are miles and miles of towering piles out there that can be difficult to sift through to find the good nuggets amongst the bad. This means there’s an obvious necessity for blog search engines that return relevant results. However, like the regular search engines, not every blog search engine is created equally. Some are better than others at providing the results you’re looking for.

Along comes Sphere to compete with quality blog search sites like Technorati. Sphere promises to return very relevant blog searches based on three key algorithm functions that work off of the keywords you enter into the search bar. These functions include: