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Friday 1 February 2008

Webometrician out of retirement: When is a blog ever dead?

After almost a year without a single post the original webometrics blogger has decided to start blogging again. Whilst a more suspicious blogger would put the sudden revival down to the next generation of bloggers starting to encroach upon the top search engine results for the webometrics field, we will choice to believe the "loss of login details" excuse.

The question of when a blog can be officially pronouced 'dead' arises a lot in webometric investigations of the blogosphere. Many studies ignore blogs that have not been updated in the last week, 2 weeks, or the last month. Maybe it is more appropriate to consider all blogs active, unless they state otherwise.

Whilst I welcome any academic back to the blogosphere, maybe future posts will be a bit more accurate that the last:
"Live Search withdrawal of all link search operators"
Whilst Live Search have severely limited the operators it offers, they still offer a linkfromdomain operator, which provides results that are not available via Yahoo or Google.

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