Threadwatch has coded a blog-only search engine powered by Yahoo!, taking Yahoo!'s gambit of blending blog and news results to the logical next step. I still think Yahoo! was smart in its strategy, since no dedicated blog engine is completely successful—it's an unrewarding niche. Yahoo! dips its foot into the water and protects its reputation by shielding its blog results with News results. Still,the Threadwatch engine is fun to play with, and the results contain a full range of Yahoo! goddness, including adding result items to My Web 2.0 and clipping the RSS feed. [via SEW]
1. Yahoo is currently loosing in the search engine race to Google. If they cannot win the race then a smart thing for them to do is go after other vertical markets.
Posted at 4:46AM on Dec 19th 2005 by Neil Patel