Blogdimension Blog

Blogdimension.com was released at the end of 2005 first in French because its authors originate from France, and also the French blogging community was the second after the English speaking one.

Blogdimension goes on international! We are proud to announce Blogdimension.com - the new generation search engine - for English speaking users.

Today one has to be global! Global means proposing a range of services that reach a maximum of users. Therefore, Blogdimension will also propose soon interfaces and contents not only in French or English but also in other major languages of the blogging world: Chinese, Japanese, Russian, Spanish, Portuguese, Arabic, etc.

Our aim is to be understood and used by everyone in the world.

So what is Blogdimension.com?

It’s basically a search engine that retrieves contents exclusively from dynamic web pages. By “dynamic” we mean:

- blogs,
- micro-blogging (Twitter-like),
- forums,
- newsfeeds,
- in one word, from syndicated websites.

Blogdimension does not retrieve information from the standard web. We therefore differentiate from other incumbent search engines.

What is Blogdimension’s value proposition?

Blogdimension retrieves all kind of blog-like and multimedia contents within an “all-in-one” unified entry point. These contents are mainly Consumer Based Contents:

- texts,
- online videos (YouTube, Dailymotion, other video sites to come),
- audio, podcasts (MP3),
- images,

found in blogs, forums, newsfeeds, social networks (some of them).

Soon, the users will have the possibility to search for other kind of contents.

How is Blogdimension different?

First of all, Blogdimension brings a solution to all those users that search text and multimedia contents at the same time by offering them a single entry point.
No need to browse many hidden links to find first the info search module, then the video search module in an other corner of the site, then again the audio search module!
We think that the user’s time is precious, so we facilitate him/her the access to the needed information by providing a unique coherent and straightforward interface to search texts and all kind of “Web 2.0″ contents at the same level.

Secondly, Blogdimension allows site submission! Do you own a blog, a forum or a RSS-like site? You can submit it to Blogdimension.com for a faster indexing. The only limitation is that the submitted resource is a syndicated one (RSS, Atom, etc.) and that the contents does not violate national or other applicable law.

Although Blogdimension features only two languages French and English for now, our search engine already supports 20 languages. The number of the resources in these languages will grow in time along with the enhancement of Blogdimension’s technical capacity.

Moreover, you can also search resources by their geographic location (ie. by country)!

The results and ranking formulas are completely different from those proposed by other search engines! We do not base our ranking on “popularity” or “authority” (it will come later as a mere option). In Blogdimension, the “freshest” results are displayed first. The more a result is recent, the more it appears on top of the results page. But the user has the choice to rearrange his results page by date, relevance or a mix of both relevance+date. Other sorting options will be available soon. We therefore base our ranking on the time criteria so every resource (for example blogs) have equal chances to appear on top of a results page. We introduce the concept on “fertility”: the more a blogger publishes, the more he/she will is likely to be ranked on the top of the list! So, in Blogdimension.com, every blogger has the chance to be one day “top ranked”.

The users can subscribe to a set of keywords making it possible to follow them up in a reader and see what’s new on the Internet!

There’s no commercial results mixed within the organic results. No trusted feeds at Blogdimension’s! You find only informative results. If one day we should introduce commercial results, it will be in a specific search module.

And many more functions and features still in preparation. So, just use Blogdimension.com regularly and check how it evolves!

What is Blogdimension’s philosophy?

As bloggers, we noticed that the existing giant search engines do not necessarily provide a pertinent answer to the new Web 2.0-like usage of the Web. With the rise of the blogs, the explosion of consumer generated contents (CGC) and an Internet becoming more and more multimedia, we feel that classical search engines become too complex to use in everyday life.

So Blogdimension positions itself as the alternative search engine to those who want a quick and unified access to the information comprised in blog-like contents as listed above. In a certain way, Blogdimension is oriented on a Web 2.0 kind of usage.

Our ambition is to adapt to these new ways of searching the Internet by proposing the right and convivial tools to the users to face the growing complexity and inflation of the Internet.

After focusing on the Internet content search, it’s now time to focus on the relationship between the different contents and their providers (the bloggers, for example).

Now, with Blogdimension, you have a real choice, an effective alternative to the gigantic search engines and finally more freedom by using a wider spectrum of Internet search engines.

Thank you for your support.

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