Google Launches Memetracker on Blog Search Homepage
I will admit that the my two most visited sites on the Internet are probably TechMeme and Memeorandum. TechMeme tracks the hottest stories on the Internet from blogs and more conventional news sources and puts the most written about stories at the top. I think it’s the best place on the web to discover big stories fast. Memeorandum is the political equivalent of TechMeme and has become equally addictive.
The New York Times launched their own memetracker, Blogrunner, last year, but it has yet to take hold as any kind of force whatsoever. But now, Google is getting into the mix by turning the home page of Google Blog Search into a memetracker.
So far, I find no reason to abandon TechMeme in favor of Google. I like how TechMeme has subheadings of other top takes on stories and then lists just about every single other blog or source where the discussion is going. Often, I will open every single blog in a tab that has written about a story so I can get multiple takes on it. Google only lists three other sources below the main story and prompts you to go elsewhere to hundreds of other blogs or news sources.
Google does do a good job of filtering which sources are the most authoritative and displays a graph showing how many blogs submit posts on each particular story over the last 16 hours. It will certainly be interesting to see how they leverage their technology to work with memetracking.
But for now, I’m sticking with TechMeme, and I’m sure most other people are. In fact, TechMeme picked up the Google Blog Search story before Google did.
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