May 24, 2002

  • Xanga’s search engine is dead again.  What else is news?!  I’m just appreciative that it sometimes works!  But hell…I need it: Do you think I can remember everything I’ve ever blogged?  Ha!   So I have this great idea…but a shadowy déjà vu comes around suggesting the possibility that I may have blogged the topic before.  But how can I know without searching for it?  I mean, after all, I write half my blogs in a half-crazed state of visionary euphoria.  And I write the other half in a fully-crazed state of drug-induced revisionary euphoria.  And it’s not like I read them or nothing.  So how would I know unless I search?


    It would nice to be able to use Google to search our blogs.  Google is undoubtedly the best search engine in the world with 32% of the world’s search hits—and growing.  And while it provides a huge amount of hits—378,000—on the keyword “Xanga”, alas, it offers little prowess in being able to search the contents of all Xanga blogs.  Hence, my fallback to Xanga’s never-quite-reliable, but Xanga-content-rich search engine.


    But regardless, those 378,000 hits are impressive!  And it got me thinking: How do they compare to the hits for other high-profile blogs on the internet?  So I did a little playful investigating and found:


    Search word:


     


    Xanga                    378,000


    Blogger                  353,000


    blogspot                 137,000


    LiveJournal            121,000



    Wow—Xanga’s #1  on the World’s Best Search Engine !


    Now if your search Google with the search word “weblog”, you’ll get an amazing 1,180,000 hits.  If you then do a joint search using the search words “weblog” and …


    Xanga                    80,400


    Blogger                  69,000


    blogspot                 11,900


    LiveJournal            5,290


     


    Xanga leads again!


    And, then—and this just blows me away—when I continued to subset my search with the search words “weblog” + “Xanga” by adding “notforprophet”, I came up with 1,270 hits—representing 1 out of every 1,000 hits for “weblog” in the world!    Hell, could I really be so popularized?  Or is the blogging phenom more parochial than I thought?!


    But the truth is, those 1,270 hits are not really hits on my blog, but mostly hits on all of you somehow referencing my blog or personage.  So a mighty thanks to the assembly of all of you for making me feel so very … special.

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