We’re happy to report that Lijit has continued to help IntenseDebate with our mission to help bring your comments into the light. Now when you search using the Lijit search widget, you will see the number of comments along with the first couple of comments on the post brought up in the search results!

We’re excited about this enhanced integration which marks the next step in putting your comments on the map.  Check out the Lijit blog for more information.

So what’s Lijit?
Lijit provides publishers with an enhanced ability to let their readers search for and discover content across their web properties.

Using the power of people, their content, and their connections, Lijit enhances the way your readers search for and discover information on the internet. You serve as a filter for all of the results your readers could possibly receive, ensuring they only receive the most relevant results from the source they trust…YOU.

If you haven’t given Lijit a try now’s the time – it’s the perfect addition to IntenseDebate!

Posted by Michael Koenig in News

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…

Posted by Michael Koenig in features