Bloglines CEO promises top blog search by summer

Thanks for the interview notes. I'm a big fan of reading information in as raw an unedited form as possible. I was half hoping it would be a PDF of scanned handwritten notes.

The ad thing is a big unknown, coupled with the business model. I use Bloglines and I have my own blogs; I'm not paying anything on either end. Google is now beta-testing AdSense ads that eventually I can put into my blogs and that users of Bloglines (and other aggregators) will then see. That will let me make a little money, but where's Bloglines going to monetize their infrastructure and services?

I just hope they don't think they can drop any little "surprises" on either publishers or subscribers without significant repercussions. Maybe they'll just put ads below the web feed publisher's AdSense ads. Meanwhile, we'll al be waiting for those shoes to drop.

I'm not convinced of the merits of a distinct "blog search engine". I just use Google and stick the word "blog" after my search terms and get plenty of interesting blog results. Maybe you guys at BW could prepare the case for how business users can get *significant* business value from blog search engines.

-- Jack Krupansky

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This part is interesting. How they will filter and rank blogs in the search engine will be key to how useful it is. You did mention using clicks as a way to rank blogs or blog entries. Does that mean they will weight blog posts with clicks instead of say incoming links or number of subscribers? Will they use tags? It would be interesting to find out more about this. Thanks for the notes.

You are to be commended for making available your notes online...truly special move.

The two areas that struck me as the most interesting were:

"we want it to be a universal mailbox"...trying to understand how UNIVERSAL.

and on advantage vs. Outlook, the comment:
"you can create any # of indiv. email addresses."

Any clarification on those two items beyond the notes would be interesting.

thanks again.

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and on advantage vs. Outlook, the comment:
"you can create any # of indiv. email addresses."

Any clarification on those two items beyond the notes would be interesting.

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