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The Million Blogger Page
Tuesday, March 21, 2006 at 01:36 PM

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Check out the Million Blogger Page for a new take on a blogger search engine:

I'm a Web developer and have been dreaming of building a better blog search engine. A kind of visual search that allows you to quickly browse thousands of blog profiles on one page, and discover interesting blogs not just popular ones.

It is true that in blogging, as with any complex system with distinct nodes, there will be nodes that for one reason or another become slightly larger than the others (in this case, blogs that are seen as being of somewhat higher quality). As the system evolves, these nodes become attractors, which means that any trajectory that comes close to that node ends up staying close even if disturbed. For instance, Instapundit is an attractor, since invariably everyone who gets into blogging puts Instapundit on their blog roll, and there it stays even if Instapundit goes on a three-month sabbatical. The presence of attractors makes it hard for other blogs to get noticed.

So any attempt to create a new system that allows people to avoid the attractors and find other blogs of interest is worth looking into.

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