Thursday, June 01, 2006

news reading: Ask.com adds new search tools for blogs

Ask.com adds new search tools for blogs

SAN FRANCISCO - Ask.com is adding new tools to appeal to the growing online audience trying to track the latest commentary on blogs, marking the online search engine's latest move to become a more prominent player in its field.

The features, scheduled to debut Thursday, provide a specialty channel that focuses search requests exclusively on material appearing on blogs — geek shorthand for the online journals known as Web blogs.

Millions of people now write on blogs, creating a highly opinionated and increasingly popular part of the Internet.

But staying on top on the latest information in the so-called "blogosphere" has been difficult because the information there is updated more frequently than most Web sites, exposing weaknesses in the indexing systems of traditional search engines like Ask.

How do you feel like the searching thing nowadays compare with it ten year ago? Back to the past time, we might spend the whole evening to dig out tons of piling data in order to find out needed information. We did develop certain kinds of sorting system to help us dealing with this kind of searching. Thanks for the great efforts we put on the Internet technology, the things are quite different to deal from it used to be. We produce more information than we could image everyday on the Internet. Everyone could be the owner of their website or blog. People provide what they know and share what they have in convenient ways. That’s result combining with the magic of technology, power of imagination and the need of communication. It’s tremendous, extremely, and exciting moment we should celebrate for enjoying the sweet fruit out of many hard working efforts.

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