Blogging On the Rise For Many Marketing Departments

According to a recent report by eMarketer, 43% of companies in the US will be blogging by 2012. As social media use continues to rise across all industries, more and more companies are incorporating blogging into their marketing campaigns. eMarketer estimates that by 2012, one in three companies will have a public-facing blog in order [...]

Real-Time Blog Search Comes to WordPress

It seems as though blogs have been taking a backseat to the instant updates of platforms like microblogs. However, blogs are fighting back and WordPress is leading the way. According to reports from sources such as VentureBeat, WordPress has enabled a feature that allows users to search for blog posts as soon as they are [...]

Iterend Shows Promise

As a result of the rise of popularity in blogging, many companies have created different tools to help index and compile them. Some companies that have taken advantage of using search engines to index blogs are: Technorati, Google’s Blog Search, Sphere,  and Icerocket.  A new blog search engine, Iterend, has shown promise as a possible [...]

State of the Blogosphere Brings Blogging to the Forefront

Blogging has become one of the fastest growing outlets on the Internet.  Technorati’s State of the Blogosphere compiles data that shows blogging is becoming more and more prominent among users.  Since 2002, for example, Technorati has indexed 133 million blog records since 2002. Among other great insights, Technorati’s research shows that there are approximately 900,000 [...]