Twingly Introduced BlogRank and lists Top 100 Blogs
Posted by Saad as Blogging, News 5 Comments
Twingly is a pretty new social blog search engine that lets you search blogs and also perform certain social action (E.g. voting). Recently they have launched a new ranking metric for blogs called – BlogRank (e.g. Like Google’s PageRank) as a way to identify and rank the Top 100 most important blogs in 12 different languages based on their proprietary ranking system. This does seem like what Technorati already does with their “Authority Ranking”.
Personally I like the idea of breaking the blog rank into different segments in accordance to the different blog audience market. However, Having said that – I was hoping if someone could actually come up with a blog ranking based on “country” rather than the language of the blog.
Because a Language like English is so widely spoken that its used as one of the primary language of many blogs regardless of their origin. So the main problem of the current blog rank system is, even if a blogger is from India, he is actually competing with the blogs in the US (Because his language is English).
If the ranking was based on country of origin, then a lot of bloggers from the different parts of the world would get the local recognition that they deserve. And It will also help the users as users are often interested to find out what other blogs are out there from their own local community.
Anyway, Twingly has released a list of Top 100 blog today which is of course very similar to the Technorati Top 100. When someone asked twingly on twitter, how they are actually ranking the sites, they mentioned that they are currently looking at links and Social votes (e.g. Likes).
I tried the Twingly search and I must say that they have done a pretty good job overall. They have a nice little bar on the top which lets you sort the result according to Date, Rank, Links. You can also sort your search result page based on when the blogs were last updated and so on. However, I noticed that Twingly doesn’t show the URL of the blog or the post in their result page. But I believe displaying the URL as necessary as it can help the user to filter out the results more easily.
So if you have a blog and you want people to find you via Twingly, Don’t forget to ping Twingly!
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- Posted on 16th December 2008
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Great writeup. I hadn’t heard about Twingly before. But now, I am already indexed. I like the fact that it is ’spam free’. I don’t know that I believe it, but so far, everything looks like its quality content.
i use the service ://URLFAN which to me is more transparent in regards to “ranking websites”. Their top 100 is pretty well respected in the web 2.0 world:
http://www.urlfan.com/site/top_100/100.html
urlfan ranks sites according to their popularity in the blogosphere and shows all their data. It’s a little more clear than both technorati and twingly when it comes to ranking websites, since thats what they focus on.
I’ve never heard of twingly before! I’ll head over and check it out.
@jimmy s – Thanks Jimmy for your insights. I have used URLFan before and they are pretty cool. But I didn’t know they have a top 100.
Thanks for sharing.
I have used URLFan and I have liked it. Never heard of Twingly before but if it will help me it is worth a shot. On another note, I did not know about URLF’s top 100 either.
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