December 13, 2008
Analyzing the Blogosphere through BlogScope
University of Toronto has developed a tool for analyzing blog posts. Blogscope (blogscope.net) describes itself as "an analysis and visualization tool for blogosphere ". It claims to track over 30.80 million blogs with 541.71 million posts.
For a search, it will provide:
+ popularity curves showing results by time periods with bursts of interest. The "curve" (actually a bar chart) shows how often the term is mentioned in the blogosphere.
+ related terms taken from the posts.
+ icon to show country of origin, and popup display of the posting.
+ ranking options for relevancy and recency
+ geosearch - show occurrence of postings across the world with the search term (not clickable yet).
It is certainly worldwide - foreign language postings come up frequently (would be good to be able to limit by language).
I was disappointed on my search for searchwiki that prominent technology blogs in the US did not come up. Analysis was interesting but would have been much better had it included TechCrunch, SearchEngineLand and a slew of blogs from and about Google.
BlogScope also offers widgets to be added to individual blogs for a summary cloud, popularity curve, and comparison curve.
BlogScope is in beta - watch for new developments. There is a short demo video
Thanks to KM who pays more attention to the University of Toronto alumni magazine than I do.
Posted by Gwen at December 13, 2008 05:09 PM