Lijit wijit widget
follow up:
I've used this for a few hours now. It's pretty cool in its restricted-domain search function. By loading the feeds of Library Clips and Cleverclogs, I've got an ultra-curated (gatekeepers rule!) yet widely inclusive set of sources about RSS/OPML. The only problem I have with Lijit is that it is possible/easy to confuse a tag for a page vs subdomain vs domain. Thus, one effect of this is that the search annotation I receive via Lijit about *any* blog hosted by blogspot is a comment that is in actuality specific to only one blog (subdomain); that is, my fellow Lijit-er tagged the entire blogspot domain with an observation relevant only to one particular and topic-specific subdomain. In isolation and as a single example, it's no trouble at all. However, en masse it could be problematic in creating noise rather than signal.
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Hi Ben, thanks for trying out our Search Wijit. We're working damn hard to improve it, so keep checking back.
And we have something intersting in the works to address the OPML splog issue to...we'll have an announcement in a few weeks.
Ooops..should have added:
The problem you're having is one known to us, and we're working on it. The problem is that there is currently separate code checks which decide what URLs make it into the search engine and how the URLs are labeled when they are returned in a search. The former knows to disregard domain level reports, the latter one doesn't. So that's why any search results from a blogspot-hosted blog always gets the one domain-level report. Unfortunately this won't be fixed in our release this week, but is set for the release after that.
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