TechMeme Finally Adds Search
Michael Arrington
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Tech news site TechMeme launched on September 12, 2005. It was an immediate hit and remains the most important blog news aggregator: Dan Farber wrote perhaps the best description of the site to date, back in 2007: “TechMeme provides a one-page, aggregated, filtered, archiveable summary in near real-time of what is new and generating conversation.”
But right from the start people noted that TechMeme had no search feature. Founder Gabe Rivera answered at the time: Don’t hold your breath. For posterity’s sake, here’s our first post on TechMeme, then called Memeorandum.
Anyway, those days are over, starting today. TechMeme search launched moments ago at techmeme.com/search, making it easy to find archived stories. Results are returned only for items that have appeared as full headlines on Techmeme, in reverse chronological order. Headlines appearing only in “Discussion” are excluded. And basic search only returns results that appear in the title of the item or in the first couple of sentences.
There is also an advanced search feature, however, that allows for full text search of the underlying blog post or article. Users can also search just by date, author, source, etc.
For now, Rivera says, he’s only releasing search for TechMeme. Search for sister sites Memeorandum (political news), WeSmirch (celebrity gossib) and Ballbug (baseball news) will come “soon.”
TechMeme also isn’t just a one-person shop any more. Rivera hired his first employee, Omer Horvitz, who built the search feature, late last year.
See the BloggerBoard for details on the top tech blogs and bloggers based on TechMeme headline data.
Update: Well we had this exclusively for all of 10 minutes. TechMeme’s post on the new feature is here.
Woo hoo!!! Thanks Gabe
There are still not enough good blog search tools available. Good to hear that some people are working on it.
Peter
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Thanks Gabe.
This is a wonderful addition.
Thanks, Gabe! Now I just want you to start blogging. Your comedy deserves a wider audience.
of the now does this much better imho.
Gabe, if you need to visualize searching,let us know!
??? top tech blogs and bloggers ??? Techcrunch rating still dropping to number 3. :/
Paid Post?
About time Gabe! Techmeme is great and now it gets better..
Jenkins
this clearly isn’t a paid post..mike has been there from the beginning with Gabe and is addicted to techmeme like thousands of other bloggers.. mike has been one of the innovators on techmeme and i believe tc was the first to include pics in their post that appeared on techmeme not that’s standard..
You can always just google the site by itself.
Type in:site:techmeme.com techcrunch
http://www.google.com/search?h.....tnG=Search
Techcrunch has 67K mentions at TechMeMe
Thanks Gabe. Very good!!!!
My best regards!
Smart feature though late! It is interesting that TC is still talking about TechMeme and getting excited a site that ads search, that’s like getting excited about adding water to your home.
TechMeme has failed to keep up. sites like nobosh have already proven themselves to be more useful.
Wayne: the problem is all Techmeme archive pages have 40+ headlines. So if you search for [yahoo microsoft] in Google you may get a result page that has “yahoo” in one headline, “microsoft” in the other, but not what you wanted: both in the same Techmeme headline. Also, Techmeme Search can search full article text.
Anyone use megite.com? It is pretty good in terms of finding popular blogs as well. Seems megite.com and techmeme.com get very similiar headlines though.
I used google search on techmeme if i wanted something specific but was not needed really.
Awesome tool they build in , finally. I might be now more tempted to research techmeme
Hope indexing is better then googles!
Reminds me a lot of feedburner! Hopefully it get’s indexed a little better!
this is awesome. i’ve wanted it forever.
is there a firefox search extension for techmeme search?
that would be the icing on the cake for me
thanks gabe!
fred
Hey Fred, check this out: http://www.labnol.org/internet.....orer/3364/
Techmeme add search! Congrats Gabe