Searching Sites or Blogs
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Posted By Rochelle Knight on 11/11 at 04:00 PM |
We've talked before about search engines’ expanded options (Web sites, photos, news, and now blogs) but it's interesting to see the increasing popularity of blogs and how this will affect searches. While there are a lot of people who still ask "what exactly IS a... blog?" (their tone dripping in utter disgust that you would mention such an awful thing), there are many others who are quickly embracing the growing community of bloggers.
Before blogs, you might have been perfectly happy to do a search for something you're interested in using Google or Yahoo!'s indexed sites. But now, with the help of blogging communities, search engines' blog searches, and actual blog search engines such as Technorati, you can also look for other people's (real people's) thoughts, ideas, and even comment on a topic whether it be healthy lifestyle tips by Kathy, traveling ideas, even movie reviews.
The options online are truly endless but will one become more popular than the other or will it always be skewed to what people have been used to? And how do you get non-technical people to understand the word ‘blog’ without going into a huge discussion?
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Nicole Simon told me the following when I interviewed her for my blog, asking how she explains blogs and podcasting to people (I can post the link if anyone's interested):
"But I gave up on evangelizing everyone and their brother and instead take a different route now: I feed them a little here and there, sending out pointers to specific blogs and podcasts. Most of the time, people will then just look at that page, and that’s it. But sometimes, people will start to realize what's available: comments, other posts, further links. They are the kind of people who will come back to me to ask questions."
Posted by: Philipp Lenssen | November 11, 2005 04:25 PM
I was thinking about this the other day and it makes me wonder about the digital divide. I've only just recently started blogging and I've noticed that blogs I read are usually related to internet culture. Conversely, my friends and family don't really have what one might call a "blogger's perspective". It seems for me that I have friends and family who know nothing about internet trends and I know people on the internet who seem to revolve around the internet.
Posted by: shawn | November 11, 2005 04:59 PM
Philipp,
Would you mind posting the link? I'd like to take a look.
Thanks!
Posted by: Jennifer Springer | November 11, 2005 05:11 PM
Reminds me of the early days (1995) of trying to talk to people about the Web itself. It took business people 3-4 years to really get their arms around how the Web worked and what its potential might be. 10 years later, my grandfather of 80 years is booking flights on the Internet.
Posted by: Matt Certo | November 12, 2005 11:00 AM
Hey Rochelle,
Thanks for linking to my review of Lost in Translation. A (female) colleague of mine has been asking me to review it for the last two weeks. I'm glad I finally wrote it. I hope you liked the review...
Cheers!
Posted by: Krasimir [FilmDailies.com] | November 12, 2005 03:28 PM
Oh, one more thing ... It's a small world indeed. My day job is a Sr. Project Manager at a web company in London. Check out our blog for musing on blogging...
http://www.smartapps.co.uk
Posted by: Krasimir [FilmDailies.com] | November 12, 2005 03:31 PM