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Blogdimension is proud to be part of the first “Get Together” a unique event gathering over 40 Alternative Search Engines. This unprecedented initiative is organized by Charles Knight from AltSearchEngines, a now famous blog dedicated exclusively to the promotion of alternative search systems, trends and business, part of the ReadWriteWeb network!

Blogdimension is also a contributor and a sponsor of this event of a new kind!

Gold Sponsor - SeeqPod
Silver Sponsor - UpTake & Matchpoint
Bronze Sponsor - HealthPricer, GoPubMed & Blogdimension

More information on ReadWriteWeb

No doubt we will share the feedback!

The story is very simple. There is a new trend from some bloggers to treat search engines as thieves.

Here are the facts. Make yourself an opinion. This blogger is trying to start a campaign of “bashing”.

1) A blogger sends us a message accusing us of copyright infringement

From: Jason Hogle
Email: jason@xenogere.com
IP: ————-

Kind regards,
Jason Hogle

2) Here is our response sent on March, 31st:

Hi Jason,
Thanks for your message and interest in Blogdimension.com.
You are right it seems we have detected a bug with the nocache function. It seems it is not properly recognized by our system.
We are solving this problem ASAP.
If you are in a hurry we have no other choice than to remove your site from our index.
Removing your url means your site will not be searchable in Blogdimension.
But if you could be patient we will let you know when it is fixed.
We put this tpic on top of our ToDo’s.

We would like to tell you that we are pleased you sent us this message in a friendly manner and we would be happy to keep you as a satisfied user of our service.
Best regards,

3) This blogger starts a real stinky bashing directly on his blog

http://xenogere.com/2008/04/12/blogdimension-is-a-thief/

Here is a copy of his post:

Blogdimension is a thief
Saturday April 12, 2008 at 11:21 pm
I contacted Blogdimension a few days ago regarding its apparent republishing of my material.

I hold little hope this will work. Companies bent on thieving content for their own gain, those like Blogdimension, seem to have far more time and money than those of us who actually create the content they present as their own.

4) Our answer to his blog directly on his blog:

Jason,

Why things could not happen normally by discussing instead of bashing publicly?

No doubt our comment on his post will be promptly removed.

Well, we are sad of such a situation when everything could be arranged simply by discussing.

And you what is your opinion?

Are search engines really the new “evil”?

We already wrote about Blogdimension recent collaborations with some emerging metasearch systems like Zuula.com (USA) or the Blogbar (Fance)… but also Alianzo, the well known Spanish blog directory and network not to mention AltSearchEngines a ReadWriteWeb weblog dedicated to the promotion of all kind of alternative search engines. Well, the alliances and exchanges of Internet visibility with innovative Web 2.0 initiatives go on at BD.

So, Blogdimension provides now its quality Web 2.0 search results also to Pleegs.

Pleegs ?

Pleegs (there is no rational explanation to this weird brandname… if you are interested to know more about it, please leave us a comments!) is a hybrid product between an online news metasearch providing results from over 17 leading sources (general or specialized search engines) AND a powerful Internet buzz tracking set of tools. Pleegs is particularly efficient and usable to allways be aware onf what goes on on Internet.

Like all metasearch websites, Pleegs allows to concentrate and aggregate your Internet searches within a unique interface instead of carrying multiple search operations on every search engine which is time consuming. So, what? In the same spirit as Blogdimension, Pleegs’ metasearch part concentrates only on results provided by search engines specialized in the live web (blogs, RSS-based content, news feeds, etc.). The users are therefore assured to find only pure up-to-date and actual information and not the antique archives dating back from the 90’s!

This approach of the Internet is similar to the one adopted by Blogdimension which consists in proposing only the dynamical part of the Web to the users. Leaving aside thus all expired sources. If you still like to browse into the prehistoric Web and you are an addict of commercial results there are very good search engines, whixh are - into the bargain - also very famous! Definitely, the new generation tools (alternative) tend to focus exclusively on content moving very fast, in real-time.
But the genuine “gem” in Pleegs resides in its buzz tracking system. It is a complete set of functions allowing to track information on one or several keywords. Are you interested in following up a brandname, a product, an information or even a person? You’ve got just to configure some warning/watch/alert messages in order to be notified of new events happening on the Web. You can choose to be notified either by email or RSS. Pleegs proposes a list of incredible filters which make it possible to define extremely precise alerts through a complete choice of time frequency options. Interesting sorting option and charts are also available if you sign up.

We could unveil and review all the functions of the buzz tracking system right here. But we prefer to invite you to test Pleegs by yourself. You’ll be surprised by the sophistication of the functions imagined by its creator!

Behind a simple GUI (Graphic User Interface) and an uncluttered design (in the vein of all Web 2.0 services) hides a complete and very well-thought-out buzz tracking service. It’s a website you will not be able to do without if you are in the economic or strategic watch business or simply a buzz hunter.

The wildest rumors are going around a new version specially adapted to the professionals and experts. Stay tuned.

It is interesting also to notice that Pleegs was created alone by a only 23 years talented young man working from his homeoffice there in Switzerland! Hat in hand Mister Pleegs! No doubt some sponsors will be attracted soon by your creation.

Pleegs is a “Swiss Made” product.

Blogdimension.com is happy to provide its search results to Pleegs.

The Team

Last month we announced that Blogdimension’s results were available in Zuula metasearch, along with all the other “big” search systems. Today we are proud to be part of the search options also in Blogbar.

Blogbar is now a quite widespread search widget the bloggers can easily add on their blogs or websites. It is a module with a nice look & feel and a typically Web 2.0 style of design. The Blogbar allows your visitors and readers (and yourself of course!) to carry out Internet searches directly from your site.

It is difficult to believe that there are so many powerful search functions (it is in fact a metasearch) hiding behind such a tiny, minimalistic and compact widget. The users can search for in practically all the search engines existing on Internet: all the stars of the search industry and now also Blogdimension.com, the Web 2.0 Search Engine! Like Blogdimension.com, they propose the service in many great languages.

Following one of the two creators of the Blogbar and author of the influential French techno-geek Netwizz blog they decided to add Blogdimension’s results because of (translated) “the quality of their results, filtering options and the rapidity of their page display“. I can tell you we are always quite happy to read such phrases!

But the Blogbar does not only propose a flat scrolling list of search engines. The engines are organized in a smart way by coherent types of search: web search, blog search, job search, social networks and even video search! They still do not propose any audio search… But for that specific search the usesrs can maybe be satisfied  by the “podcast search” to be found directly on Blogdimension.com.

Oh yes! I’ve almost forgotten to tell the Blogbar makes it possible to search for your content published on your own blog or website as well. I should even had begun the article by this crucial information!

Okay. We could call it quits with the Blogbar. But we would miss quite a lot other interesting features imagined by its cunning designers. So you can also set your Ad-Sense parameters, if you have any. As you can see, the Blogbar is not only free of charge but can also bring you some little money. Every blogger knows that Ad-Sense is not a real bonanza! Still, this intent shows the Blogbar creators paid some attention to the users’ interest and wallet. A quality that becomes rare in the software or Internet industry.
The setting up of the Blogbar is very easy and the guidelines uncommonly clear. Even a 6-year child could do it!

And last but not least, if you feel affraid that adding a widget may clash with the look & feel of your website, it’s simply nay! Blogbar’s inventors anticipated a whole range of colors so their widget integrates seamlessly to all kind of web and blog designs.

Long live then to the Blogbar!

For Blogdimension.com, this new cooperation - short after the North-American Zuula.com and more recently with the Spanish Alianzo.com - indicates that we begin to harvest some cool effects. We, at BD, put everyday much energy and commitment to bring our Web 2.0 users a greater choice in their daily search activities, more fun and finally an alternative Web content cleared as much as possible of all the noise and scoria that begin to overwhelm big players’ results pages!

Thanks for your constant support,

The Team

There is no any fanatic blogger who has never heard about Alianzo, the most extensive bloggers’ and social network and directory “Made in Spain”! Alianzo is a reference in the blogosphere since early 2005 and is known through its regular and much follwed blog listings established on an international basis.

Alianzo cleverly ranks and federates the blogs and their authors by several criteria like geographic origin (more than 70 countries covered, sometimes zoomed at a regional level), language and a system of categories by tags.

Alianzo rankings are made following a complex formula mixing different sources like “Bloglines RSS subscriptions, Technorati’s incoming links, Google BlogSearch’s incoming links, Alexa’s position, Yahoo’s incoming links, Google’s incoming links and the number of mentions in several Digg’s clones during the last month”. It is based on the combination of popularity measurement and the users’ influence (the users have they word to say which makes alianzo a true Web 2.0 service).

Moreover, a trends system is implemented so the users can follow the tendency of a given blog directly on a timeline.

As per today, there are 13479 bloggers (many of them influential), 15451 blogs, 244 countries, 49 categories and 13814 tags registered in Alianzo.

So why a cooperation between Alianzo and Blogdimension.com?

“We found a natural convergence between a Web 2.0 network/directory and a pure Web 2.0 search engine” says Henrick, one of the two cofounders of Blogdimension. Alianzo and Blogdimension are both focused on the same kind of users and market: bloggers and more generally all kinds of user generated content producers (video, audio & podcast, etc.). Both are active at an international scale, often in the same countries and languages. Both are niche systems. So, there is definitely a positive effect for Alianzo and Blogdimension to support each other and put in common their respective audiences and share some traffic.

Unlike several years ago, Internet users are now very experimented in 2008. They are less and less satisfied by giant monopolistic Internet search systems which tend to pour tons of useless or commercial results on them. This new generation of Internet users is now ready to explore the alternative, specialized and often very efficient tools available to them. Alianzo and Blogdimension are clearly the tools that the power users and bloggers as well as all the Internet users now need in their tool box for their daily Web 2.0 search activities.

Find the logos and links to Blogdimension directly on Alianzo’s website while you surf there and vice-versa! Stay tuned!

Thanks again for your constant support,

The Team

It’s done! The smart and fully customizable multi-search engine Zuula.com displays now also Blogdimension’s blog results!

Zuula.com belongs to the family of metasearch engines. But unlike the other “metas”, Zuula proposes an extensive choice of results provided by a clever combination of the most used search brands available on the net.

Like Blogdimension.com, Zuula tends to verticalize its results via a system of tabs. One can search for Internet content by type of sources in a very user-friendly way. The search tabs are: web, images, video, news, blog, jobs… No doubt that some other “verticals” will be added in the future.

Moreover, Zuula is a real “do-it-yourself” engine. Many of the parameters are customizable. For example, you can select or exclude a search engine by simply drag and drop its tab, change their order of appearance, add an “adult search” filter, choose the number of results to be displayed, etc. Of course, all these preferences can be saved so you find your custom search interface next time you use Zuula.

In a standard way, Zuula also proposes its toolbar and an Add-in. Let’s call it a widget!

Oh yes! Zuula keeps the sponsored links (those provided by the search systems part of the results displayed in Zuula) well separated from the organic results. So, the users access directly to the true content they are searching for without being polluted by commercial results. This is also a good point which also corresponds to Blogdimension’s philosophy.

Zuula is in Beta mode. But they are probably humble at Zuula because their search is in reality already fully functional, fast and provides extremely relevant results!

Congrats to Zuula’s team for the great work they are doing there in their Princeton’s (NJ, USA) labs.

So, good luck to Zuula! Blogdimension is of course proud to be part of Zuula’s ecosystem.

NB: Zuula means “to take off” in a central-african language! That’s all what we wish to Zuula here at Blogdimension.com! And to soar as well…

More on Zuula blog
More about Zuula on AltSearchEngine

Thanks for your support,

The Team

In few days, it will be possible to search for blogs, microblogs, associated images, terrific audio & podcasts, still unseen online videos, etc. in a great language.

Here is a little clue: next Blogdimension.com, the Web 2.0 search engine is spoken by 1/5 of mankind.

Stay tuned!

Thanks for your support.

The Team

Hey!

Blogdimension.com would like to introduce MoFuse a great web application allowing blog and other RSS sites publishers to “mobilize” their content. MoFuse provides a simple interface where you can create the mobile version of your blog. The result is a site adapted to mobile browsing and readable on most of the mobile devices.

Moreover you “can take control” of the layout of your MoFuse mobile site thanks to a set of powerful Ajax features.

This is really cool because other systems do not let you arrange the look & feel of the mobile version of your site. The content of the mobile version is always up to date thanks to a RSS enabled function that feeds it automatically with your blog or site content.

Here is, for example, the mobile version of Blogdimension’s blog: http://blogdimension.mofuse.mobi/

Oh yes! Last but not least! MoFuse have also a revenue sharing program. It’s “the only company with a mobile revenue sharing program that allows publishers to monetize their mobile site using Google AdSense Mobile” says David Berube, the CEO and Founder of the service.

Thanks to MoFuse.com you can “mobilize” and “monetize” your content in less than three minutes!

So, let’s put Blogdimension’s in your mobile links right now!

MoFuse.com are doing a really great job to help the convergence of both blog and mobile worlds! Blogdimension.com wishes MoFuse a great success!

Thanks for your support,

The Team

When you launch a new product or Internet site today it is practically impossible to reach any success without adopting a form of Internet communication.

Ideally you should set up a media plan by mixing some traditional media techniques (campaigns, press releases) and an Internet communication strategy often dubbed “viral communication”.

As a reminder, a viral communication via Internet or also “buzz” uses all kind of messages made possible by the different services available on Internet: e-mailings, newsletters, blogging, microblogging (Twitter, Jaiku, Tumblr…), social media (Facebook, LinkedIn, Ziki…), etc.

You can add to these techniques an extension to real life by participating in unformal events or meetings organized by some geeks or bloggers in a Hard Rock Café or some other trendy places. It’s a good way to promote your concept around influential or power users and of course to establish interesting contacts.

This overall strategy is ideal if you have sufficient communication & marketing budget lines.

But what can you do if you do not have big resources to implement such a multicanal strategy?

Indeed, promoting your Internet product requires to communicate directly with influential (and also less influential) bloggers. It’s a hard work and you need much patience because you need to convince every blogger individually about the user value of your product. Bloggers are generally not “mass” users. It means that you will have to really get on well with every blogger. Who in turn will give you a hopefully good opinion on your product on his/her blog or site and of course by buzzing around positively. You must notice also that even a negative buzz can bring you some additional traffic though we do not recommend it! It’s better to be recognized for the tangible value your product brings to the users.

The top sign of efficiency is when an influential blogger puts your logo permanently on his/her blog so it is visible to his/her visitors. It’s the best mark of sympathy that a star of the blogosphere can bring you in terms of buzzing.

As soon as this echo carried by the bloggers begins to be audible enough classical media (press, radio & TV) begin also to express some interest in you.

At Blogdimension - The Web 2.0 Search Engine! - we do not have enormous resources to roll out an ambitious communication strategy.

We establish some contacts mainly in a viral mode and targeted in function of the users that find our search engine interesting and of some value. From time to time we appeal to press releases organized by our cool PR company. Our company is Rescue Team Communications, the company that contributed to communicate about Mozilla Europe!

Our statistics - despite they are still humble - are in constant progression. September’s statistics are already close to the level they reached end of August. It is a quite positive sign.

So, we noticed in our statisitics that the most important traffic driven to Blogdimension.com comes from women’s blogs!

In particular, one French girl’s blog Nanikaa brings us alone 3,15% of our overall traffic! It means that if only 30 she-bloggers as cool as “Nanikaa” or “A l’evidence…” bring us their support, they would cover 100% of our current statistics!

That leads us to conclude that the buzz generated by the she-bloggers is very efficient. It also gives a nice lesson of wisdom for those who think of setting a viral communication strategy.

Everybody talks about the “influential bloggers” having in mind that they’re men. May be we should talk in feminine more often.

A word to the wise is enough!

Answer: perhaps women know better how to share…

Thanks for your constant support,

The Team

Special thanks to Charles from AltSearchEngines (he knows why)