New Search Engine Coming to Specifically Search Blogs
2005-03-05 18:53:55
U.S. researchers claim to have invented the first Internet search engine tuned to uncover scandal as it unfolds, gossip as it's being dished, and able to monitor the prickly views of an increasingly prominent tribe of "instapundits" - the bloggers.Online Search, the working title for a prototype tool by Accenture Technology Labs, in Palo Alto, Calif., goes beyond mere keyword lookups about products, public figures or trends.
Instead, the search focuses on several thousand influential sources of online news and gossip that have traditionally been less accessible to search algorithms - from chat rooms and bulletin boards, to Usenet groups, fan sites and blogs written by amateur scribes. From those, it identifies hot topics and monitors people's positive or negative reaction to the next new thing.