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Scobleizer is stating the current crisis in blog search.

Now that we have currency, “world live web”, via the magic of RSS, which has overcome the traditional date search problem with search engines, we are still dealing with relevancy issues.

At the moment the overload problem is that you are returned a heap of recent links for your search term, but which one should you read…if you read from the top you are reading links from blogs with the most incoming links (Technorati sorts by authority)…can’t this be changed to the single post with the most incoming links, this way the relevancy is based on that post only and not the blog as a whole.

From Scoble’s post:

“At least Technorati shows me inbound links (but you don’t know what those inbound links were for — what if they were all for a Paris Hilton video that that blog had on it, would that blogger be as interesting for you to read about Apple as, say, Engadget or an Apple-focused blog?”

A way around this is to incorporate the Technorati Blog Finder into the relevancy.
This way you can choose a post that has a lot of incoming links but also choose a post based on a topic it specialises in.

If you searched for “apple” but the top post (most incoming links) doesn’t specialise in “apple” according to the Technorati Blog Finder (author specified topics they specialise in), you may choose the 10th hit (this has high incoming links - although not as much as the top hit - and also is claimed to specialise in a topic that may match your keyword).

So next to each result you would see the Blog Finder topic if it matched the search term, or it could even say I see you are searching the term “apple”, do you want to limit results to people who specialise in the topic “apple”

…actually I guess you can already do this, as you can limit a search to topic experts…but this is before the search, what about limits or a focus to refine a search.

Other considerations for relevancy besides total incoming links:

- Incoming links for a single post
- Blog topic (Technorati Blog Finder)
- Total comments
- Comments for the single post
- Appearance on Blogrolls
- Appearance in RSS readers

…and the usual relevance, like number of times keyword appears in the post, whether it’s in the title, etc…

I wonder how Sphere will accomodate relevancy problems, that is stuff that is relevant by context, therefore it can be more relevant to me (this is not personalisation, but context)…also TailRank.

Related post:
Blog Ranking: Incoming links??
Blog Clouds (more on discovering or unveiling blog communities, although based on the same principles)

TextSnippets is a folksonomy for codes…ie. mark-up stuff for your web pages.

This is a great idea for people to discover hacks and codes to add to their blog templates, also a good place to keep old codes, when you replace your blog with new codes, just in case the new code doesn’t work out.

All-in-all it’s just a great place to store all your code-text bits, and of course discover new stuff.
I like the idea of trading codes, get some help on enhancements, can also act as a one stop help desk from the Web2.0 community, by asking a question in your post…I’m often after some code or how to alter some code, this could be a good place for a lot of the right people (capable coders) to see your requests.

If you goto the home page you will see the Top Tags, also the body of the homepage has the most recent entries, if you don’t like scrolling you can go straight to an entry by using the drop-down menu…see earlier or later entries by clicking on the page links.

Great thing is that each post has a permalink and people can leave comments on your posts, so in essence it is a blog-based folksonomy.

When you write a post, just write some text (just like blogging)…when you incase some of that text between the code mark-up tags eg. <code>...</code> it will be displayed in a special text box.

Take a look at a post I added for Yahoo! blog search box code…here is my account…here is my tag searchbox.

There are RSS feeds for main pages, every tag, every user…not sure about user tags

…also not sure how you are notified if someone leaves a comment on one of your posts.

It needs my user name on the home page so I can see my account in one easy click.

Peter Cooper from FeedDigest seems to be the developer.

Can’t wait to see more blog-based folksonomies, it’s great that you can have a blog within a sharing system like a folksonomy…what makes this different from usual folksonomies is that each post has a permalink and your post can simply be just text…also the availability of comments, all that’s left are trackbacks.

This blog-based folksonomy is specifically for code content, when will we see one just for any type of content or topic.