{"id":12249,"date":"2015-02-18T02:53:29","date_gmt":"2015-02-18T01:53:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jurnsearch.wordpress.com\/?p=12249"},"modified":"2015-02-18T02:53:29","modified_gmt":"2015-02-18T01:53:29","slug":"not-loving-notey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/2015\/02\/18\/not-loving-notey\/","title":{"rendered":"Not loving Notey"},"content":{"rendered":"

Notey is a new topic-focused blog finding directory<\/a>. Yeah, I know… but it just reportedly raised $1.6 million in funding. <\/p>\n

It has a slick iPad-focussed design, so on a widescreen desktop PC I hit some clunky navigation points a few times. Top of the ‘recent blog posts’ pile on entering was “40+ Insanely Clever Products Your Dog Deserves To Own”, which suggests the marketeers are already in Notey, via marketeering blog-a-zine articles. <\/p>\n

\"notey\"<\/a><\/p>\n

The search box is hidden away, as if they’re ashamed of it. The search experience is not great. I searched for “Lovecraft” (H.P. Lovecraft, famous horror and SF author, on whose life I’m an expert) and the results were incredibly poor. A Google search for… <\/p>\n

site:http:\/\/www.notey.com\/blogs\/ lovecraft<\/p>\n

… reveals more of the semantic messiness, and the ways that the database is being skewed by the vast cloud of fanboy crapware that now surrounds the man and his fiction. <\/p>\n

Sadly Notey doesn’t look like the new Technorati to me, and nor is it of much used to academics seeking a specialist single-topic blog. For discovery of single-topic blogs Google is still your friend, and the following Google Search modifier still works despite Google having abandoned a dedicated blog search box…<\/p>\n

inblogtitle:<\/strong>keyword<\/p>\n

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Update: October 2018. It appears that inblogtitle:keyword is no longer useful, as it now returns only 10 irrelevant results when used with Lovecraft<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Notey is a new topic-focused blog finding directory. Yeah, I know… but it just reportedly raised $1.6 million in funding. …<\/p>\n

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