Search Query RSS Feeds from Ask.com
I bookmarked few RSS feeds of search queries from ask.com. These feeds collect daily blog posts that are related to “geospatial semantic web“, “semantic web“, and “GIS geospatial“. Links to those feeds can be found in the “Bookmarks” page.
RSS feeds of search queries are nothing new. All major search engines offer this service. However, there is something novel about how ask.com builds its blog search capability. According to this press release, the search capability is built on the blog subscription information from the popular blog reader application — bloglines.com.
Ask Blog & Feed Search takes an entirely new approach to searching the blogosphere. First, instead of crawling, Ask Blog & Feed Search harnesses the subscription data of hundreds of thousands of real people who use Bloglines to create our search index.
“On the blogosphere, people provide the best way to discover the freshest, highest-quality feeds — information that isn’t exposed to crawlers,” said Apostolos Gerasoulis, executive vice president of search technology at Ask.com. “In addition, this ‘collective human intelligence’ provides a natural defense against spam, as people typically do not subscribe to low-quality content.”
For more comments about ask.com’s new blog search capability, see also eBiquity and TechCrunch.
