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Yodel search is now called Sphere.

From the about page:

“With an increasing number of people reading, writing, and commenting on blogs, finding relevant content has become increasingly difficult. For a variety of complex technical reasons, current blog search services deliver less-than-satisfying results. These reasons include an exclusive emphasis on freshness, or a too simplistic computation of a blogger’s authority. Our algorithm sorts through all those blogs, super fast, and finds relevant content to match a blog search query.”

TailRank is treading similar grounds, you need a log-in to participate, although you are able to surf around without one (my password doesn’t seem to get me in)…anyway more on this service later, it seems a little complex at first glance.

[thanks TechCrunch]

Tag items in your Google past searches at Google Personalised.

A lot of people look back into their search history to find pages, at the moment the only way is to search your history or use the calendar, well now you can use tags.

So this isn’t tagging new pages to add, it’s only about tagging pages from your past and present search results.

[via TechCrunch]

Yahoo! blog search, well this links to the news page, so you don’t know about blog search until you see the results page.

When you search Yahoo! news you are by default also searching blogs, these results are returned on the sidebar (a bit lightweight in celebrating blog search)…you can click “More blog results” to see the full page, although a separate interface would also be great…come on!

The sidebar of the blog results page shows flickr images, My Web 2.0 results, and RSS feeds straight into My Yahoo! (Yahoo! are certainly in the web2.0 market).

I forgot to mention, each item in the results can be added to My Web 2.0, and My Yahoo!, there is also the RSS feed (so even though the item may be a blog post, if you click on RSS this subcribes you to the main feed of the blog).

In a previous post I suggested ways to add a search box to your blog content.

One way was to add all your posts into Furl as this can search full-text of your posts, and can also search within just a blog category…cool.
But firstly Furl doesn’t let you export a search box and if it did could you search by topic as well as the whole account.

At the moment I use del.icio.us as a mirror for my blog, mostly as a title index (quicker to find posts this way), but it lacks full-text so Furl may have been a better option, anyhow del.icio.us doesn’t offer code for a search box either.

Well if you bookmark all your blog posts into RawSugar you can drop a search box into your blog (although Raw Sugar doesn’t search full-text).
Not only can you search your account (mirror of your blog) but you can click on the tag categories.

It needs to search full-text, and also search within just a category, then we are in business.

Here is what they plan to add:

“Add guided search to be seamless part of your blog
Allow you to tag your entries to RawSugar directly from your blog [see here]
Import your existing blog entries and tags to RawSugar so you can get started quickly”

Also check out the update on adding an OPML directory to your sidebar.

Linklogs talk, mind map and Wikipedia article stub is a great collection of the different ways of making linklogs….my addition is that these can even be aggregated and shared in a folksonomy environment.

See more on the idea of a Blog-based folksonomy.

Linkblog folksonomies are like Wink where you can share a list of links, compared to just sharing single links, like at del.icio.us…a list of links is an item, give the item a title (eg. a topic name), clicking on this title will launch to a permalink in your user space (yourself and others can tag this item as you/they wish).

Inspired by Pascal, maybe del.icio.us (apart from being in a folksonomy environment) is a “linklog”, whereas if each item had a permalink it would be a “linkblog” (notice the inclusion of the letter “b”).

So each of your permalinks or topic lists can have an RSS feed, as you probably will be adding new links to your list (kind of like having an RSS feed for a wiki page or blog post), as well as an RSS for each tag as per usual.

Sometimes I wish each of my blog posts had RSS feeds, as some posts contain a comprehensive list of links, and I can’t help going back and adding more links, only no-one will know I have re-published my post as it lacks an RSS feed at the post level…I’m going to look into this.

What about incorporating the presentation of Freemind within social linkblog folksonomies, that is, if your posts could be written in a HTML + Java Freemind format (collapase/expand categories), instead of just a basic list of links.

What about your list of links being done with an OPML editor, so each item (list of links) in your user account has an OPML file, as well as the RSS feed.