August 28, 2005

  • Xanga's new search engine really works.  It just helped me find a few mentions of "notforprophet" in others' posts that I might have otherwise missed.  There does seem to one limitation, however: It indexes back only over the last month.  So, it is only a "very current" search.  Yet better than nothing at all.  Or Xanga's old, buggy search that would furnish no results  if there were too many  hits.


    It still makes my Atomz blog search that I've designed for my own site here (over in the left module) useful since that search indexes virtually my entire presence here from 2000 - today, not just the past month.


    Just for the hell of it, I just peformed a comparative "hit" search on both Xanga and on my own site...


    Here are the Xanga hits:


    love     4,452,773
    hate     1,179,756      about 4:1


    sun        242,793
    moon       86,239      about 3:1


    god     1,028,311
    satan       27,096       about 40:1


    day     4,586,083
    night    2,471,243      about 2:1

    life       1,879,879
    death     256,436       about 7:1


    war       136,991
    peace    572,840       about 1:4


    Comparing my emphasis (as proxied by "hits") to Xanga's overall results for these same "hits::


    love    254
    hate     49                 about 5:1


    sun     182
    moon   62                 about 3:1


    god     98
    satan    8                   about 12:1


    day     307
    night   232                about 1.3:1

    life     339
    death 178                  about 2:1


    war    105
    peace  42                  about 2.5:1


    *looks up*  I score proportionally higher on love, but also on death and war.  It would seem (though I'm too lazy to do the stats) that I mention life and the sun and the moon more often than the average blogger.  hrmmm.


    Speaking of stats, this speaks for itself.



































































    Fastest growing blogs and blog networks


     

    Unique audience, 000

     


    Blog / Network

    January 2005

    July 2005

    Growth


    MSN Spaces

    311

    3,257

    947%


    fark.com

    488

    795

    63%


    Blogger

    8,684

    12,599

    45%


    Xanga.com

    4,810

    6,862

    43%


    Daily Kos

    348

    476

    37%


    The Smoking Gun

    1,706

    2,243

    31%


    Gawker

    411

    531

    29%


    TypePad

    3,557

    4,555

    28%


    engadget

    630

    787

    25%


    Boing Boing

    506

    605

    20%


    Source: Nielsen//NetRatings


     


     


     


     


     


     


     


     


     


    Except I'll make one observation: the outrageous MSN Spaces growth?  I'm prepared to bet that that much of that is due to their new official presence within the Chinese blogosphere.


    Update: searching Xanga for "xanga sucks" vs. "i love xanga":


    xanga sucks     2754
    i love xanga     1378


    Ingrates us!  ha.


    Update with breaking news insight:  Katrina - Category 5?  No, as my daughter Starrr16 just remarked, it's now "Category Die". 


    Live in New Orleans or thereabouts?  Want to 'stick it out'?  Just remember that the bayous are filled with millions of poisonous snakes that will fill the flooding waters inland and that hundreds of casualites likely soon to be found will not haved drowned, but be will have been snake-bitten.

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