Sunday, September 25, 2005

Technorati vs. Google Blog Search

Wanting to get a sense of what happened at Aberdeen St. during Queen's Homecoming, I was recommended to check out blog postings on the event...which has now become a comparison on how well the new Google Blog Search fares against the well-known Technorati in finding posts of interest. So, out of the top 50 hits, here are the ones that are relevant:

1) Google Blog Search:

-Good for you Queen's Students...
-queen's madness

2) Technorati:

-Taking out the garbage (which is actually the post below...)
-Homecoming Thoughts (see the post below 'Taking out the garbage')
-Mmm pancakes...
-Queen's Homecoming weekend...and I feel horrible
-queen's madness

And then there's OptimusCrime, who've posted about the Day and the Night.

So what are my conclusions?

1) Neither Technorati nor Google Blog search was perfect, since they missed out on OptimusCrime, amongst others. It's a tie.
2) In the end, the debacle that was Aberdeen resulted in at least one car being flipped and set ablaze. My question is, since there were so many cops on the scene, how could they not have stopped the car from being destroyed?
3) Drunken students, wherever they're from, are stupid. But the Queen's community will be blamed for most of it even if a good proportion are friends from abroad.
4) We'll get Kingston's reaction in the Whig-Standard tomorrow. Probably more calls for crackdowns on next year's party.

Oh, what a time to be in Kingston...

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