Well, this (the current) post is now found at or near the top of the search results at Google and others, as I discovered while conducting some meta search tests for the keyword search engine review.

Now isn’t that something in itself?

thanks for stopping by and commenting.

To be honest, I also use Google’s Blog search for some searches (for the sake of completion) but I find it very inconsistent compared to the others. Sometimes it finds posts first but more often it fails to find posts altogether. Hence I left it out - I don’t think it is ready.

I should have mentioned that in the post though - thanks for reminding me.

1) To make sure that bloggers know we’re listening, which I’ve found to be priceless as a long time blogger myself.

2) To assist bloggers who haven’t had the best experience with our service.

I can make all the promises in the world, but they fall flat when the service doesn’t work the way it’s supposed to. We’re constantly working to improve the core service and it’s bloggers like yourself and Tom that help in telling us their experiences.

So, what I mean to say is, Thanks!

Also, have you used the sphere it bookmarklet when reading an article on the web and interested to see who is talking about the topic in the blogosphere - by far my favorite app. It’s based on a robust content semantic analysis tool that we use in our algorithm as well our related media links. Sphere it! is very different than Technorati This! (yes, they launched this after our release, complete with exclamation mark!)- we’re finding relevant matches to the article, not just links. This creates a much higher quality, more immediate results set. Here is an example:

Go To Time - here is the current lead article on their home page (today at 11:20 am)
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1192578,00.html

Click on the Sphere it!

Click on the Technorati This!

Anyway, thanks again for the feedback. Please keep in dialogue with us.

Technorati seems the best, and fastest, at the searches. Ice Rocket finds lots of spam, but also returns the same post time and again turning even once relevant posts into spam.

PubSub seems a sleepy backwater, where what little news arrives has long since been overtaken by events.

And, though Mr. Cohen’s response above is hopeful seeming, I seem to recall something similar being asked of Damien when he found PubSub useless, or words to that effect. I don’t know that it resulted in any great leaps forward.

thanks for the speedy response - I’ll email you the keywords used.

The news reader i use is NetNewsWire.

Eeek. I’m sorry that you had such a bad experience with our service. May I ask what your search query looked like (what were the keywords you used) and when you did your calculations (dates)? Also, which aggregator did you use to read the results? Of course, we strive to make PubSub work as best as humanly possible and your input means a great deal to us.

Regards,

Steven Cohen
PubSub Concepts, Inc
scohen@pubsub.com