Intense Debate & Lijit: Indexing Comments – Phase I
We’re making great strides here at Intense Debate in indexing comments! We’ve teamed up with Lijit to help bring light to what we call “the Dark Matter of the Blogosphere,” by which we mean most blog comments, which are usually not indexed by big search engines. For the first time blog readers and commenters have the ability to search through the vast number of comments made on blogs with Intense Debate.
What does this mean exactly? Glad you asked! In the past, comments have been unsearchable. You’ve invested your time and written informative essays in response to blog posts only to have them lost into the comment abyss. Finding comments was like searching for buried treasure – unless you had some sort of map where X marks the spot you couldn’t find them. Even if you had a map there was no guarantee. Well now with the first phase of our Lijit integration you can search for comments a bit easier. Consider it a far more reliable treasure map, or an awesome metal detector.
Lijit provides bloggers with an enhanced ability to let their readers search for and discover content on the Internet. If you haven’t given Lijit a try you’re missing out. Now, Intense Debate and Lijit have teamed up to put the wisdom of your comments on the map.
Stay tuned for further innovations…
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How and wear do I use this search function?
To utilize this search function you'll need to check out Lijit's search widget. It's a search box that allows blog readers to search blog specific (author specific) content. You can see Lijit in action here – http://feld.com.
Again, this is the first phase in indexing our comments with Lijit. With that in mind comments are currently indexed with lower priority than blog posts. We're working on increasing the priority of comments in the search results. Here's an example of Intense Debate and Lijit in action – http://tinyurl.com/5ohetv
Rome wasn't built in a day. Stay tuned…
i´m new here, let me try this!!
yes by the way I have!!
Can I change the colors of my intense debate displayed on my blog??
its black but I like more blue
What do you mean exactly? What would you like to be blue?
try away Dav7! Let me know if you have any questions.
Interesting.
I am standardizing on WordPress & IntenseDebate for all my sites and those of my clients. This development may prove to be useful for my client's real estate blog at http://www.garymountainrealtor.com as we transition that business into social media from e-mail marketing.
There was a comment recently on disqus vs. intensedebate where Disqus was praised for being more innovative. I am happy to see IntenseDebate starting to unveil new features.
Thanks! There's plenty more coming!
I missed this news. I'm glad to see this type of stuff happening. I'm currently scoping lijit for my blogs.
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