Taking the fight to Technorati’s Door - Gnoos launches
May 31, 2006 | By Matt Craven | Filed Under Products
The first serious competitor to Technorati that I’ve seen in quite some time appears to have launched. Australian site Gnoos has launched.
A quick runthrough of some various searches came up with a wide variety of international responses, without much blogspam showing up, and significantly faster than what I’ve seen Technorati do for a very long time.
Some nice options to trim responses to show only Aussie Blogs and Aussie Media (and other options) are also included.
Granted Gnoos is not as feature rich as Technorati - not yet anyways - but I believe that they’re off to a great start.
Gnoos is, of course, also blogging.
About the author: Matt Craven is the former editor & publisher of The Blog Herald. Currently, Matt is the co-founder of Bryghtpath LLC, a boutique web 2.0 firm located in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He blogs at Telegraphik & The Blog Herald. You can follow him on Twitter.
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[…] Technorati Competitor: Gnoos Australian Blog Search Engine Gnoos is providing a similar search engine (as Technorati) but with an Aussie influence. It is still much faster than Technorati and seems to produce sparse but spam free results. Not nearly as many features as in Technorati, but that might be a benefit rather than a disadvantage in maintaining a fast response. Also, in related news, TechCrunch is reporting that Ask/Bloglines is offering a limited blog search conducting their news searches from within 7000 pre-approved blogs and news sites. This blog is not one of those being searched. Technorati Tags: ask bloglines blog search technorati Related Posts from the Past: […]
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it is so hard to keep up with the features/sites related to blogs. :( - this should be easier and less time consuming. :(
[…] Aussie bloggers look excited at the launch of gnoos, a regional blog search engine that can be configured to show results only from Australian Blogs. The existing search leader, Technorati, lets you filter results based on blog popularity or blog category but not based on the geographic location of the blogger. […]
[…] Aussie bloggers look excited at the launch of gnoos, a regional blog search engine that can be configured to show results only from Australian Blogs. The existing search leader, Technorati, lets you filter results based on blog popularity or blog category but not based on the geographic location of the blogger. […]
[…] Aussie bloggers look excited at the launch of gnoos, a regional blog search engine that can be configured to show results only from Australian Blogs. The existing search leader, Technorati, lets you filter results based on blog popularity or blog category but not based on the geographic location of the blogger. […]