Bloglines wasn’t the only company to push out a new blog search engine yesterday - Gnoos launched as well. And though their launch timing could not have been more unfortunate, there is a lot about this Australia-focused blog search engine to like.
Gnoos is focused on indexing Australian blogs as well as bloggers with a “global voice”. Because of the different focus it’s hard to compare the result set for a given query to other blog search engines. I’m focusing on the feature set instead, and in that respect Gnoos is at the top.
Each results (a blog post) can be commented on at Gnoos, and rated. Total votes up and down for a post are counted and, soon, will be used to determine relevance in later searches. Clicking on the “more” button pulls up the entire post. This seems like an obvious feature and some of the other new blog search engines have it, but Technorati continues to leave this out, forcing a click through to the blog to read the entire post. Finally, and I like this feature best, tags can be added to a post on the fly in a box below the summary - and although tags aren’t useful right now, Ben tells me that they will be building functionality around tags soon.
Beyond the features, there’s just something that feels good about the Gnoos site. It may be its uncluttered design, quick response time to searches or something intangible, but it just seems like a site I could spend a lot of time on. Ben, you should consider expanding this beyond Australia.
About freakin’ time! I see Ask.com as the Juggernaut, and Gnoos as Kitty Pryde. And we all know who won that battle in X3.
Nice Search Engine. Definitely agree with you about the uncluttered design. Aussie blokes and bloggers should be happy with this I guess.
Do they call wilderbeasts gnooses in Australia? that’s what they have as a logo.
Wow! This thing has soem amazing features and from what I’ve played around with it, returns some pretty decent results. They really should expand to other countries.
~Code
This definately looks/feels superior to Sphere.
I see the usefulness of clicking the “more” link to read the entire post but couldn’t this be damaging to the blog’s visits? Then again news readers already do this. Eh, this something I never understood. I guess I have to keep in mind that most bloggers don’t care for financial support from their blogs? Am I close?
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One reason Technorati does not display the full post on its site is fair use. Maybe the fair use laws are different in Australia, but viewing a post inside Gnoos means less CPM for TechCrunch.
I agree that this has great potential, and that Technorati has a thing or two to learn from gnoos. However, the content simply isn’t there yet, and I wonder how long it’ll take to even get close to the vast database that T’rati has already.
In any case, I’ll still be rooting for the little guy!
How do you pronounce this guh-noos, noos, gee-noos?
-Natasha
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I really like the way gnoos is starting with a select market to get their technology right. Assuming they then localise this in other regions, they’re on to something unique and cool.
No Gernooooos is good gernooooos with Gary Gnu.
The question, with so many blog search engines, where do we users stand, I still stick with Google, atleast i am happy with them.
With apparently a new search engine cropping out every day, reviews are nice, but unforunately, can we put a full stop and ask people to shut up and stop unless they do something that’s not so WEB2iic, which is what people try to shove us with their services.
It seems like the old search engine wars of the 90’s … All these different options for us, but which is the best? They all have some sort of appeal. It is just a matter of time until something comes along to bring all the best features together. Too many of these new services are all hype and usually dont move 2 feet from where they began.
Techie why should people stop creating new search engines?
Thanks for the update on this new search engine…. Looks interesting…. How will they decide what blogs have a global reach?
Brain Based Business
They must be getting good traffic, because the interface was running slow. They returned a total of 831 results for “search engine marketing”, so I have no idea how big the DB is.
how do they make money??? good to see some more aussie startups too
First of all, I’m a fan of just about anything Aussie, so “good on ya”.
The second thought is that any growth in the number of tools that can index, share, allow fragmented data searches or otherwise popularize the growth of core elements of Digitality are a win.
Chris Venn
Inventive Networks
http://www.chrisvenn.com
http://www.beauty333.com