Twingly Uses ‘BlogRank’ To Rank The Top 100 Blogs
By Anna Johnson on December 17th, 2008Swedish social blog search engine Twingly has introduced its proprietary BlogRank system to rank the relative importance of blogs. To mark the launch, Twingly has also released its 100 most important blogs in 12 different languages.
What makes one blog more important than another? According to TechCrunch, the only thing Twingly will disclose about its ranking technology is that its based on ‘inlinks and likes among other things’. Twingly also admits that the list is based on its data and not necessarily 100 percent accurate. Who woulda thought?
Click here to view Twingly’s list: http://www.twingly.com/top100
Source: Robin Wauters, “Twingly Debuts BlogRank, Guess Who Leads The Top 100,” Twingly, December 16, 2008
December 28th, 2008 at 1:44 am
i use the service ://URLFAN which to me is more transparent in regards to “ranking websites”. Their top 100 is pretty well respected in the web 2.0 world:
http://www.urlfan.com/site/top_100/100.html
urlfan ranks sites according to their popularity in the blogosphere and shows all their data. It’s a little more clear than both technorati and twingly when it comes to ranking websites, since thats what they focus on, and any blogger can lookup their website and see how they rank.
December 28th, 2008 at 3:44 am
Hi Jimmy,
Yes, we’re big ‘fans’ of URLFAN too. See http://www.kikabink.com/news/691/free-competitive-intelligence-tool-of-the-week-urlfan/