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May 24, 2005

Blogging about Products

Filed under: On Blogs

Blogging about Products


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In a sense what Trevor has accidentally found with his post is the power of the long tail and his suggestion isn’t too far from the truth of what a lot of successful bloggers are doing with their posting about products. Take a look at Gizmodo and Engadget as to big examples - both are posting specifically about consumer electronic products - each post on a different one.

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Is this because bloggers and blog-readers are gadget geeks? Personally I like to be aware of the last electronic gadget, they are so fascinating.

However, I think that this phenomenon is due to the current state of search engine algorithms. I’m not sure that the result would be the same in a semantic web infrastructure.