Three new "relational" features proposed in Blogdimension's search results

As you know Blogdimension is preparing its new 2.5 release. We don't want to let off the pressure on innovation. So we keep on imagining and designing new useful ideas for our ever demanding users. We owe them innovation!

So, here are three new features in preview of the next major upgrade of Blogdimension.com, the now Web 2.5 Search Engine... in a certain way.

Example of query on AltSearchEngine

• 206 link(s) to this blog
• See more from this blog
• Cached

"206 link(s) to this blog"

This feature displays the number of times let's say ReadWriteWeb is linked to (or cited) by some other blogs. This is a very useful utility to measure your popularity within the blogosphere, of course through the prism of Blogdimension's index! Other systems will probably give different results. So you can compare between various search engines.

Blogdimension's "Link To" feature indicates two things:
1) How many other blogs link to your blog,
2) Who they are.

This way you can find your allies but also your ennemies... A true social and relational feature!

"See more from this blog"

This one is a bit different. It displays all the posts or articles from a same blog available in Blogdimension's index at a given moment.

So you can have the whole history of a source at a glance within Blogdimension's results page. Of course we deliver only the post or article title, date, author and a short summary. You are then invited to clic on the link to access directly the original article for full reading.

"Cached"

Blogdimension caches some raw text content. We usually deliver only the links. But our technology makes it possible to show some limited content of a post or article. So this is the way to read a post entirely within Blogdimension. But it is strongly recommended you read a content directly where it derives from, we mean on the original blog. A direct link to the source is provided.

We will tell you later why this "cache" function is interesting either for the bloggers (content producers) and their readers. Typically, if the distant blog is down or unaccessible, a cached version of articles or posts can provide satisfaction to the bloggers and their readers by delivering a minimalistic content (like a "spare part" content). But the key idea is that this feature will in fact boost bloggers traffic. We'll tell you why next time. ;-)

So, if you are a bit curious about your blog network or you like to spy upon others then try these new features. May be you will learn something about yourself or the others. ;-)

PS : when using these features you might encounter some slowness. It is because such actions require more computation and resources. Just be patient (few seconds in general).

Thanks for your support.

The Team