Comments on: Feed searching – a small comparison

By: Planet Wordpress

Planet Wordpress — Wed, 23 Nov 2005 23:49:00 +0000

[...] In September, I did a small comparison of feeds. Back then, I liked Feedster, Blogdigger got no splogs and Technorati came in third out of the four. Since then Google has popped up, so I ran a feed looking for “Mark” on the 4 engines just mentioned. This is a huge image to try and show some results from FeedDemon: [...]

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By: Greg Gershman

Greg Gershman — Fri, 16 Sep 2005 12:52:14 +0000

Interesting, thanks for the feedback. We’ve gotten a few comments on making the ads less image, more text. In some sense, we want you to see it, on the other, we don’t want to get annoyed. It’s good to hear it doesn’t overweigh the value of the feed, and we’ll take the size/color into consideration in the future. Thanks!

By: Mark

Mark — Fri, 16 Sep 2005 07:41:46 +0000

Hi Greg – the reason the ad is annoying is because it’s full colour. That may sounds strange but because of that it ‘leaps out’ of the screen at me and in a reader that tends just to display text, it’s obvious / blatant. Whereas adsense (which I admit I block in firefox) has a range of colours so they can blend, this is full-on, in-your-face stuff which for me at least switches me off. Others may disagree though.
Either way, it’s a small price to pay for a very good feed :)

By: Greg Gershman

Greg Gershman — Fri, 16 Sep 2005 03:07:02 +0000

Thanks for checking out Blogdigger, and sorry the ads are annoying. We are still testing them, and hope to make them as relevant as possible. We’ve taken special care to avoid spam blogs, I’m happy that you noticed that. If you have any questions, please let me know!

By: Mark

Mark — Thu, 15 Sep 2005 16:57:27 +0000

Heh … me and Google are mates ;)
It was their launch that made me look and count and I have added them already with the same terms and later I’m going to expand my searching for various other terms across Google, Feedster and Blogdigger. I’m watching them :)

By: David

David — Thu, 15 Sep 2005 16:19:00 +0000

Considering how much you love Google, how about Blogsearch @ Google?