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In last weekend, two Chinese blog search engines launched. One is from the leading BBS search engine Qihoo, another is the new version of Booso from Bokee (previous profile on November 2005).
Since I profiled Booso in later 2005, Booso has been barely usable. They started to change the open source Lucene search engine into their proprietary system since then. The new version of Booso is much better than previous one. You can sort the results by relevance or by date, and filter the result by posting time. When you click on a search result, it will not take you to the blog post as most other search engines do. The requested blog post will be showed in a iframed window, maybe that’s because it allows users to vote for the results by using iframed toolbar. That’s still bizarre, I think, since there is other ways to deal with it, such as by using ajax.
Qihoo Blogsearch takes advantage of Qihoo’s strong search technology team. As Booso, the results can be sorted by relevance or by data, and be filtered by time. It also utilize cookies to record searching history for later usage. Different from Booso, you can also search related blog rather than blog posts in Qihoo. Neither of them provide tag search, while another blog search engine Souyo has.
Currently, Booso says it indexed over 3.6 million blog posts from 337,128 blogs. However, according to my preliminary test, it seems most of the blogs, if not all, are hosted in Bokee. Qihoo doesn’t disclose the amount of indexed pages,but it provides search results than Booso and also than Souyo.
All these three blog search engines definitely still have much room for improvement. Souyo now has the best features among three, but based on Qihoo’s capability in search engine business, it has potential to become a major player in this market.
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