China’s Blog Search Engines Suck

Written by Tangos on February 18, 2006
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While Scoble is playing a blog search engine game, I conducted a comparision of Chinese keyword search capabilities on various blog search engines, including Technorati, Google Blog Search, Icerocket, Yahoo Blog Search, Feedster, and many domestic search engines, as 8fang, Feedss, Grassland, Feedsearch.net, RSShow, Booso, Oao.cn, Okrss, Qibox and Teebit.

I use the keywords “Google 黑板报” to search the hot topic of launch of Google China’s official blog, and take three blog posts to test whether those search engines indexed them?

The details of the comparision can be found in my Chinese blog. The winner goes to GBS and Technorati with 85 and 70 results, icerocket followed with 50 results. But all the China’s blog search engines sucks, the best one only returns 11 results. (Note: all the results are base on the time I made the comparision, that is in the morning of Feb. 15, 2006)

Baidu, the rival of Google China, has yet provide blog search service, will it be a powerful competitor to GBS and Technorati in China? And when will it launch this service?

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3 Responses to “China’s Blog Search Engines Suck”

  1. Sam on February 19th, 2006 6:02 pm

    I agree that all of the current Blog search engines are lacking. Lots of room for BBS search engines as well, including Chinabbs, Teein and others (if anyone else has good suggestion, I am all ears).

  2. WeBuZz 网碑 » The wisdom of crowds on the web on March 19th, 2006 12:50 am

    […] Before ending this post, I want to add some of my observation on Chinese blog search, I agree on the conclusion pre-drawn by others, those engines suck, although they did a incredible job luring VCs. My experiments seemed to turn out, the searching functionality of them pretty much follow the prehistorial way, namely just looking for keywords in every single page and return them in whatever order. And BBS searches can perform poor as well, I will leave my testmony another time, but a little hint is ChinaBBS sucks most. Someone may say that unlike normal one webpage or blog, a thread on the BBS doesn’t have links to eachother to utilize, but my argument is they actually have other useful clues, like the number of viewers and replys, the number of times the post has been forwarded to another place, or even the influence of the author in terms of the average viewers. Although the later 2 measurements can be tricky, which involve similarity analysis and need to keep track on every user Id, but at least the “visibility” of the post is easy to extract and then capitalized on. Many of those engines don’t do it well at best, and likely don’t do it at all. […]

  3. luliang on June 12th, 2006 9:04 am

    new booso release, have a look.

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