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by James Robertson.
Original Post: Analyze this, please
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There are a bunch of services that search the Live Web (a term coined by this guy, by the way) and/or provide feeds of searches: Bloglines, Blogpulse, Feedster, IceRocket, Pubsub and Technorati. They search more than a dozen million sources (mostly, but not only, blogs). And at least one of them has become what Adam Penenberg in WiredNews calls "a new public utility."
So why doesn't any analyst cover them? Why don't we see some objective, reliable, authoritative, first-source studies comparing them?
Scoble has been taking a look at this stuff recently, but I think Doc's right - we need more than a drive-by comparison, we need an in-depth examination of these services.
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