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Find out more about BlogPulse in our Frequently Asked Questions.
 General  What
is BlogPulse?
What
can BlogPulse do for me?
What is BlogPulse?
BlogPulse is an "automated trend discovery system for blogs. Blogs,
a term that is short for weblogs, represent the fastest-growing medium of
personal publishing and the newest method of individual expression and opinion
on the Internet. BlogPulse applies machine-learning and natural-language
processing techniques to discover trends in the highly dynamic world of blogs.
BlogPulse is brought to you by Intelliseek.
What can BlogPulse
do for me?
BlogPulse.com is a portal into the world of blogs. BlogPulse.com features
the following:
- A Search Engine for blogs
- A set of Analysis tools that are
applied to blog content daily
- A fun look at real-world Trends as
reflected through blogs
- A Showcase, which we think of as
a virtual sandbox where our researchers bring you some of the coolest
new ideas, tools and gadgets for blogging
If you are a blogger …
- You can ensure that your blog is represented in our index
- Try our search engine to
see who is talking about topics of interest to you
- Find out who links to your blog actively through other bloggers'
own blog entries, and in what context
- Check out our Analysis and Trends tools
to see what’s current or "bursty" (meaning it bursts
onto the discussion scene) in the blogging world on any given day
If you are a web surfer …
- Try our blog search engine to
seek out and compare bloggers’ opinions on various topics
of interest. This search engine is specific to blogs and doesn’t
mix in other general content on the World Wide Web.
- Check out our Analysis and Trends tools
to see what’s top of mind in the blogging world on any given
day.
If you are a journalist, writer, analyst or researcher …
- You are going to love our blog search
engine. It is a one-stop portal for finding out what bloggers
are saying on topics of interest to you or on your beat. We
did not scrimp on our search engine’s capabilities – you’ll
find it quite powerful to meet your searching needs!
- Perhaps you want to find out the latest, greatest memes and
trends in the blogosphere—you’ve come to the right
place. Check out our daily Analysis and Trends.
- You have a hypothesis you are pursuing and are looking for quick,
add-water-and-stir tools to confirm your thinking. Check out the
latest selection of tools in our Showcase—we
promise that it will be worth your visit. We are confident you’ll
be back for more!
We’d love to hear from you about how BlogPulse helps you.
We’d love it even more if you would share with us your thoughts
and ideas on how to make BlogPulse even more useful. Send
us your Feedback.
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Search What
does BlogPulse search?
How
many Blogs are out there? How many Blogs does BlogPulse search?
How
do I search BlogPulse?
What does BlogPulse
search?
BlogPulse searches content posted on weblogs, or blogs (i.e. BlogPulse
is NOT a general World Wide Web search engine).
How many Blogs are
out there? How many Blogs does BlogPulse search?
Today’s Internet hosts millions of blogs. The actual number varies
depending on the source or the research on which the estimate is based. BlogPulse
locates content from more than 1 million blogs and indexes them on a regular
basis.
How do I search BlogPulse?
The BlogPulse search engine uses a simple interface
which is similar to the interfaces used by most Web search engines, such
as Google or Yahoo! Simply enter your
search terms to
locate blog entries containing those words. Click on Search
Help if
you want to know more about specific search features available on BlogPulse.
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Indexing How
do I submit my blog to BlogPulse?
What
does it cost to add my blog to BlogPulse?
How
frequently does BlogPulse index my blog?
How do I submit my
blog for indexing by BlogPulse?
Please use our Submit blog form. Remember, BlogPulse
is a blog-only search engine. Please don’t spam it with URLs to general
web sites or other resources. Spamming our blog submission process costs
us a lot of time and resources, and prevents us from offering a high-quality,
free service to the public.
What does it cost
to add my blog to BlogPulse?
At this time, you can add your blog to be indexed by BlogPulse for free.
How frequently does
BlogPulse index my blog?
At this time, BlogPulse will visit your blog at most once a day. Check here
(the BlogPulse FAQ’s) next
time you visit BlogPulse for any opt-in indexing plans we might offer in
the coming months that include more frequent updating.
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Analysis How
does BlogPulse analyze the blog data?
What
is the "Top Links" feature?
What
is the "Key People" feature?
What
is the "Key Phrases" feature?
What
is the "BlogBites" feature?
Can
I get the daily BlogPulse Analysis via RSS?
How does BlogPulse
analyze the blog data?
BlogPulse creates a full-text search index of all of the blog entries it
finds every day. You can search this index through the BlogPulse search
engine.
Additionally, BlogPulse analyzes the blog data in a number of interesting
ways. These methods reveal the most
cited links and key people that
are referred to daily in blog entries.
BlogPulse also performs a unique kind of text mining on blog data
to help reveal topics and themes within blog entries every day. These
findings are presented to you in the form of key
phrases and BlogBites.
What is the "Top
Links" feature?
Top Links are the most cited
or most popular links appearing in blog entries daily. Top Links
can give you an idea of sources, stories and themes that have occupied
the attention of bloggers on any given day.
What is the "Key
People" feature?
Key People represents the most
prominently featured people across blog entries daily.
The "Leaders" table showcases persons with the most overall
citations on a given day, comparing the "rank" of each
with the previous day. The "Bursty" table showcases persons
who are the biggest movers or suddenly noteworthy—an indication
of potentially new people who’ve entered the mindsets of bloggers
(as in "bursting onto the scene today…").
What is the "Key
Phrases" feature?
Key Phrases is a set of bursty
phrases discovered in blog entries on a given day—an indication
of the topics being blogged on that day. Key Phrases are automatically
mined from blog entries every day through proprietary text mining
techniques.
What is the "BlogBites" feature?
BlogBites showcases a blog
entry for each key theme that’s automatically discovered
during the daily indexing of blog entries. BlogBites intends to
capture and present a daily snapshot of top stories from the world
of blogs.
Can I get the daily
BlogPulse Analysis via RSS?
Yes! Here are the links to the RSS feeds:
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Trends What
are BlogPulse Trends?
These
trend graphs are really cool. Can I suggest topics for creating new
trend graphs?
Can
I create BlogPulse Trend graphs on my own?
Can
I publish BlogPulse Trend graphs on my blog, in a news/magazine article,
in a research paper or text book, etc.?
What are BlogPulse
Trends?
BlogPulse Trends is the one-click answer
to the simple question: "What’s the buzz?" BlogPulse
Trends identifies the topics and subjects that people are talking
about in their blogs. Is it the latest political scandal? International
struggle? A TV show? A new electronics gadget or computer operating
system? A particular movie star or sports celebrity? A famous court
case or a bizarre news story of the day?
A BlogPulse Trend uses a simple trend graph to display the buzz
generated by any given topic or the comparison of buzz across a set
of topics.
These trend graphs
are really cool. Can I suggest topics for creating new trend graphs?
We think these BlogPulse Trend graphs are cool, too! Please give
us your input on topics for creating trend graphs. We can’t promise
that we can incorporate all your suggestions, but we will certainly do our
best to showcase your ideas.
Can I create BlogPulse
Trend graphs on my own?
For a limited time, we are going to let you generate your own BlogPulse Trend
graphs. This technology is now accessible via our BlogPulse Showcase. Internally,
we’ve found this to be an incredibly cool tool. We’d love to hear
from you what you think!
Can I publish BlogPulse
Trend graphs on my blog, in a news/magazine article, in a research
paper or text book, etc.?
We are happy to hear that these BlogPulse Trend graphs can support a story
or article or paper you may be authoring. You may reproduce the entire BlogPulse
Trend graph only in its entirety (including any copyright, trademarks and
watermarks that may be present in the graph / picture). Please provide in
the accompanying text or in an explanatory cutline the appropriate attribution
to our BlogPulse service for the trend graph, as well as the link to our
web site (http://www.blogpulse.com/).
If you have special needs, please send us
an email, and we’ll be happy to talk to you and see how
we can accommodate your needs.
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Showcase What
is the BlogPulse Showcase?
How
can I collaborate with you in the same way to showcase some cool
capabilities?
Do
you have a BlogPulse API?
What is the BlogPulse
Showcase?
We are constantly innovating and producing new and cool tools and technologies.
The BlogPulse Showcase is a sandbox for our researchers,
developers and collaborators. This is where we offer an early peek into new
and cool things related to blogs, blog searching, blog analysis and more.
Check here frequently for new toys and tools for your use.
Your BlogPulse Showcase
features some capabilities built by others. How can I collaborate
with you in the same way to showcase some cool capabilities?
We actively collaborate with researchers and developers on a wide range of
activities. The BlogPulse Showcase features work
we’ve done with other firms. If you have specific research or development
ideas for collaborating with us, please send us an
email. A team member will contact you shortly to listen to your thoughts
and determine any follow-up.
One obvious note of caution: Please don’t send any confidential
or proprietary information to us—we
cannot be responsible for receiving any material we didn’t
ask for.
Do you have a BlogPulse
API?
At this time, we have some mechanisms in place to work with our collaborators.
A formal API is forthcoming. Please write to us about
your interest or need from a BlogPulse API.
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Highlights What
is the BlogPulse Highlights feature?
How
frequently do you update the BlogPulse Highlights?
What is the BlogPulse
Highlights feature?
Like millions of bloggers out there, Intelliseek has a blog, too. Originally
we called it the "BlogPulse Blog," and most people who saw it basically
said, "Huh?" So, we changed the name of our blog to "BlogPulse
Highlights."
We intend to use BlogPulse Highlights to
bring to your attention the latest information on service updates
to BlogPulse.com, new features/capabilities, new collaborations,
news about BlogPulse, etc. Occasionally, we will also use BlogPulse
Highlights to bring attention to interesting things we are seeing
in the world of blogs using our tools.
How frequently
do you update the BlogPulse Highlights?
You can anticipate that we’ll post updates of some sort on BlogPulse
Highlights about once a week.
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Contact
/ Feedback / Other Who
is the creator of BlogPulse?
Do
you accept ads on BlogPulse?
What
is your Privacy Policy?
How
can I contact you?
How
can I give you feedback on your service?
Who
is the creator of BlogPulse?
BlogPulse is a technology showcase of Intelliseek.
Do you accept ads
on BlogPulse?
At this time, BlogPulse.com doesn’t accept or feature any ads.
What is your Privacy
Policy?
Please take a look at our Privacy
Policy here
How can I contact
you?
Send an email and someone will get back to you
shortly.
How can I give you
feedback on your service?
We greatly appreciate you taking the time to send us your ideas and suggestions.
Please submit your feedback here.
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