Ticket #4154 (closed enhancement: invalid)

Opened 1 year ago

Last modified 1 year ago

Change dashboard to use Google BlogSearch instead of Technorati

Reported by: Otto42 Assigned to: anonymous
Priority: low Milestone:
Component: Administration Version: 2.2
Severity: normal Keywords: has-patch
Cc:

Description

I made this change to my blog a while back, and I've found it to be a lot more useful. Basically, it changes the incoming links to use Google BlogSearch? instead of Technorati for searching. Google BlogSearch? is a lot faster to respond, less prone to total failure (which happens to Technorati seemingly once every couple weeks or so), and seems to return a lot more timely results. I can see who's linking to me much more quickly.

Patch included.

Attachments

google-blogsearch.diff (1.2 kB) - added by Otto42 on 04/17/07 03:51:58.
Change technorati lookup to Google on the dashboard.
feed.diff (0.9 kB) - added by filosofo on 04/17/07 17:00:41.

Change History

04/17/07 03:51:58 changed by Otto42

  • attachment google-blogsearch.diff added.

Change technorati lookup to Google on the dashboard.

04/17/07 08:02:01 changed by Viper007Bond

  • version set to 2.2.
  • milestone changed from 2.4 to 2.2.

Meh. Technorati seems to have more results and less spam.

I don't care one way or the other really though TBH.

04/17/07 13:45:46 changed by drmike

-1: In the wp.com forums, it's been commented on many times over thet Google's Blogsearch missing a lot of posts and links.

Of course so does Technorati. :)

04/17/07 14:22:00 changed by Otto42

Well, while I've found it to be more useful than Technorati (by a loooooong shot), but others may disagree.

In my experience, Technorati's links are often incorrect, weeks or sometimes months late, usually spam, and never useful. Google Blogsearch, on the other hand, has yet to give me any incorrect links and the spam ratio is pretty low (again, only in my experience). Using a link:yourblog.com seems to work very well indeed.

I just put it out there for discussion and comment. And in case anybody wants to try it for themselves. :)

04/17/07 14:23:11 changed by Otto42

  • milestone changed from 2.2 to 2.3.

Also, no need for this to be considered for the upcoming releases. Push it back, think about it a while.

04/17/07 17:00:41 changed by filosofo

  • attachment feed.diff added.

04/17/07 17:01:36 changed by filosofo

How about my attached patch, which adds a filter for the feed path. Then the user can change the blog service.

04/17/07 18:03:15 changed by Otto42

Put a similar filter on the link part of that too, so that a plugin could adjust both. Then I think that's a perfectly acceptable idea.

05/04/07 00:50:22 changed by rob1n

  • status changed from new to closed.
  • resolution set to invalid.
  • milestone deleted.

This is all filtered now.

05/04/07 16:09:02 changed by Otto42

Probably should be noted here that the filters were added for #2177 by [5346].