Google Blogsearch is No Techmeme Killer

techmemeEarlier this week Google Blogsearch relaunched with an aggregator of sorts. Immediately several sites including ReadWriteWeb claimed it was a "Techmeme killer". The truth is that Google Blogsearch won’t kill or injure Techmeme and I’ve created the video embedded below to outline the main reason why.

There are a variety of good posts on the Google Blogsearch/Techmeme killer topic including: Rob Diana, Steven Hodson, Duncan Riley, Josh Catone and Svetlana Gladkova. Sean Percival had a bit of fun with the topic noting that the only reason Techmeme will be killed is because Techcrunch didn’t make their lead payments on time.

Techmeme would be a much stronger asset to the community if there were topic pages (similar to Blogrunner) and the current hierarchy was removed. There would be a higher level of discovery and a nice dose of leveling would take place. I have been researching Techmeme for over six months and will eventually have a lengthy video about the overall news-aggregator topic and additional thoughts for improvement.

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3 COMMENTS
  1. Anonymous says:

    Sean Percival rocks – what a great line – and it is sooooo true!

  2. Thanks Anon! Your my fav, if I only knew who you actually were…

  3. Yeah Google Blogsearch isn’t going to top others but at least Google got their foot in the door in terms of blog directories. If they plan on dominating the world, they needed it… ;)

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