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Exclusive preview of Yahoo's browser-based email based on Oddpost.   PS: Yahoo Mail works with Firefox/Mac, it does not work with Safari.  Watching Google's blog search for a few hours, it doesn't seem to have a concept of page-rank. The order of the results seems pretty random.   NPR has a podcast about the Roberts hearings. I caught a bit of it yesterday and it was really interesting. Surprisingly so.   Forbes is looking for, but hasn't found the profits in podcasting.   Paolo spots Googlebot reading his RSS feed.  search.blogger.com: "Search blogs from all over the web." It's also available at http://blogsearch.google.com/. A FAQ page is also available. Memeorandum is tracking it. Google Blog Search search query for "google blog search." It appears to be searching the RSS feeds. Based on a little experimentation with recent content, it's not very useful as a search engine for this weblog. If a post doesn't have a title it doesn't seem to see it. It actually picks up posts on my ancillary sites better than those on this site. Example. It's good that they support RSS output (it was sure to be a frequent feature request) but once again they ask the user to make a choice of output formats, they really need to get this -- users don't care. And they're breaking Postel's Law. They might want to look at the weblog search engine for Scripting News, an application of the Google API. Really they shouldn't depend so heavily on blog posts having titles. Really need to give this some thought, I think you punted too early.
Scanning some of the Memeorandum-gleaned links, Google's should do a better job working with bloggers. We do more than publish summer salad recipes and Harry Potter reviews. If any bloggers were briefed in advance, none gave it a thorough look. Also, the timing is obviously designed to steal some of Microsoft's thunder. Maybe we could move beyond that. We want to look at what Google is doing, for sure, so please give us a chance to do that, even if we won't write puffball pieces about your work, and let Microsoft speak too. Maybe even let them have a week to communicate their product strategy.
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