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Bob Wyman

3 years ago

in Correcting the Record about Microsoft on Scobleizer
Robert, Best of luck in your new job! I look forward to remaining a loyal consumer of your work.

bob wyman

3 years ago

in GrabPERF: Search Index Weekly Results (Sep 12-18, 2005) on Newest Industry




I'd like to suggest that you include a second test for Google BlogSearch to make the comparison to PubSub a bit more fair. What you're retrieving from PubSub is an Atom feed, not a full HTML page. Typically, HTML pages can be filled with all sorts of junk that isn't present in Atom feeds. Thus, the Google BlogSearch numbers may be getting dragged down by them having to transfer more data or do more formatting of the output. So, what I'd like to suggest is that you include a second "Atom" search test for Google BS that would look like this:



http://blogsearch.google.com/blogsearch_feeds?s...>


Since PubSub always returns 32 results (if present) it makes sense to adjust the Google BlogSearch item "num" to be 32. Admittedly, there would still be a difference between PubSub and Google BlogSearch since GoogleBS only returns summaries while PubSub returns full posts. However, this difference in payload size might get lost in the wash.



bob wyman


4 years ago

in MSN Spaces…MSN Groups vNext? on kevinbriody.net
You wrote: "MSN Spaces blogs rarely come up in my PubSub searches"...

The problem is that a large percentage of Spaces are non-English but your query is all English words. Searches like yours will generate many fewer results on Spaces than they would on a more predominantly English-language system like LiveJournal, Blogger or Typepad. Remember, Spaces got started in Japan and Asia. It is still gaining momentum in the English-speaking world.

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