Twingly I wish you the best of luck, if you can eat away at Google’s market share I am all for it.

First remark, spam-free in blogs is not possible at all. Because by definition blogs make spamming accessible to anybody without any programming skills in the contrary of classical websites which require some techniques in web development. So, blog technology is a real highway to spammers of all sorts even amateur ones, in a way. At least, it is difficult to fight blog spam automatically, needs human intervention any way (we know it well at BD). One idea would be to imply the users to fight the spam, making thus a real Web 2.0 large scale anti-spam projetc.

The main characteristic of the blog market, we feel, is that blog content has usually a very short life span. So, this fact justifies dedicated niche search engines, like Twingly.

But at Blogdimension, we feel that focusing only on the “blog” segment is not enough. That’s why our value proposition is to bring to the users all other syndicated or RSS/Atom content along: blogs, microblogs, forums, online news, commented images, podcasts and of course online videos. This way we cover a wider spectrum of the blog-like content. We dub ourselves as a Web 2.0 Search Engine, and we are probably the first one with such a declared positioning at the moment.

Next challenge is to bring all this ‘heteroclitic’ Web 2.0 content to the mobile universe. Doing that potentially doubles your revenue expectations.

Search systems like Zuula have also a smart strategy by verticalizing their search and sources and we are particularly happy to be partners with them.

I wish all the best to Twingly and welcome into the blogosphere fabulous search industry!

Henrick Kac, CEO Blogdimension.com

I think that what that Twingly is about to do may become the solution for spam altogether. Using social networks and “good guys” we can isolate the spammer away.
http://usingit....-are-a-spammer/

Imagine to be able to search for “Viagra” and only getting serious discussions on the topic. I’m not suggesting it is an interesting search to everybody, but it paints a powerful image.

We will do everything it takes to be able to provide and sustain that. And all the tools we later provide on top of our search will benefit from the spam-free index. Imagine a blog ranking system not biased by spam.

Cheers! // Martin, CEO Twingly

I suspect that keeping their index spam free will be the easy part for Twingly. The hard part is going to be making the index comprehensive and up-to-date. That’s why it’s actually not a bad strategy to start with a more narrow geographic focus. It makes the “comprehensive and up-to-date” part easier to accomplish.

The other challenge, of course, is the fact that blog search is a crowded field with some strong, established competitors (Technorati and Google), as well as some smart, hungry newcomers (Sphere). In fact, a lot of what Twingly is trying to do sounds similar to what France-based newcomer Blogdimension is trying to accomplish. (We recently added Blogdimension to the eight other blog search engines at Zuula; Blogdimension is a strong entrant, definitely worth checking out.)

In any case, thanks for the info on Twingly, Mike … and, of course, for mentioning Zuula.

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I hope you guys do shipping business. Some trucks sending wrong direction.
I’m done. Look at how big blog…6,820,000,000
http://search.y...qry=&fr=sfp

The bigger it bacomes. It’s far difficult to find business. I hope stuff & food gets expensive in silicon valley, California.

That’s crazy talk, man.

Many people losing their jobs. I tried to do shipping & handle business. They send stuff too late. I did phone calls. I do search…And than… All these famous blogs such as Wordpress, Technoriti, Techcrunch, techmeme… Pop in front of Google.

My friend quit due to numbers blogs invasion. He couldn’t get job done. I tried to bring him back on. My other friend, johnny, in seattle. His father who worked coal mining, Complaining at him. it was all blogging problem.

I quit.
I tried to save factory and union workers.

For example, Mike Arrington killed million dollar Wikia search engine for writing bad remarks, and critics boo. Wikia could lose much of its employees.
If I was investor of Wikia. I would lose millions dollars. Luckily, I’m not investor of wikia or programmer of wikia.

I need serious search engine. Where I can do shipping business or talking saudi oil. I have spam blogs put in front page of search engine. I can’t do the business . I can’t fix the solution. I quit the job.

I like to say. Mike, you are an idiot… For saying something bad for Wikia & investors of wikia. I have right to say it. I can’t Google the business. I have start business over again.

Find me blog spam free search engine.

Not strictly true. Real blogs link to spam blogs when (1.) good links go bad due to domain transfers, bait-and-switch tactics, etc. (2.) included search widgets link to spam (3.) etc….

The assumption that “real blogs very very rarely link to spam blogs” is more workable.