New Pinging Service and New Blog Search Engine Launched by Same Company


Posted: April 28th, 2007 | By: Steve Mullen | Filed under: Social Media News | 2 Comments

A company out of Tel Aviv, Israel called aggreg, ltd. is having a busy April.

On April 18 aggreg brought their blog search engine, Strategicboard, out of beta and fully launched it. The company claims its search engine is unique because its goal is to be free of spam blogs. They invite users to submit addresses of blogs that are less than legitimate for whatever reason. Those blogs are removed from the search engine, presumably after being reviewed. An excerpt from their news release:

Strategicboard’s seeks to provide the highest quality blogs and feeds for its users. One of the company’s motto’s is “real blogs by real people for real people.” To achieve that goal, Strategicboard has in place editorial techniques and automated processes that exclude spammers from the search engine. Strategicboard also invites users to report suspicious blogs using the “Spam Free” report tool.

Also in April, today to be precise, they launched a new blog update pinging service called King Ping. This is a new competitor to Ping-o-Matic, a site that allows you to “ping” multiple search engines and directories to let them know that your blog or website has updated information. From my quick review of the site, it looks like the only different is that feed aggregators and small search engines can sign up for the service and be included, saving them to trouble of having to do the work of looking for updates themselves. Here’s an excerpt from THAT news release:

What really sets King Ping apart, however, is it doesn’t just provide a service for bloggers. Aggregators and small search engines can also make their lives easier thanks to the new site. Here’s why: most aggregators have to check blog updates listed on their indexes manually which is time consuming and usually causes them to miss fresh updates. With King Ping, aggregators can gain instant access to notifications about blog updates. This is the first time such a service has been offered.

I’ll be honest, I haven’t given either of these sites a very thorough once-over, but they’re worth knowing about, and they might be worth checking out.

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  1. Dudu Mimran says:
    April 29, 2007 at 2:39 am

    Hi Steve,

    My name is Dudu Mimran and I am the CEO of aggreg, King Ping owner. I wanted to detail our differences from other central ping services:
    1) We have in place sophisticated spam detecting mechanisms to prevent from splogs going through us and disturbing the operation of all the web services we ping. Aggreg in general has the spam free goal written on its flag!
    2) Before we go and update web services with new pings we make sure the blog that we are about to ping has real updates (new postings) to prevent another common method used by sploggers to generate false traffic to their blogs.
    3) We are open for any kind of web service (as long as it is not spam related) that wishes to stay updated at real time to receive pings from us. There are many small web 2.0 companies that deal with blogs and need to know when the blogs they work with are updated. Although these companies are not large search engines with high potential traffic, still (the long tail effect here again) we can not ignore them and by doing so we make sure the blogosphere is more real time and provides better service for all users.

    Thanks,
    Dudu

  2. Steve says:
    April 29, 2007 at 9:06 am

    Mr. Mimran,

    Thanks for taking the time to visit my blog and fill us in!

    Steve

 
 

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