Best of the Web Launches Blog Directory
Posted on December 5, 2005
Best of the Web (BOTW), which has been around since 1994, has launched a directory just for blogs called Best of the Web Blogs that debuts with over 5,000 blogs listed. Search Engine Guide has an article about the launch of the new blog directory.
The search portion of the Best of the Web blog directory is still in beta, and should be "ready for release within the next 30 days. We are still tweaking the post functionality of the search - grabbing current content from the directory-kind of like Technorati does, without all the spam", according to Greg Hartnett from Best of the Web.BOTW also told Search Engine Guide they plan to have 20,000 blogs in the directory by the time they launch the directory's search function. BOTW only lists blogs that have been active for at least six months.According to Hartnett, "we have been interested in blogging for about 18 months, and have been monitoring it closely for the last 12. We came up with the concept of the blog directory in July of this year, and began development shortly thereafter. We were able to draw off the experience of building the BOTW directory, and minor modifications of the underlying code enabled us to deploy an admin interface for it within days. From there, it was a matter of figuring out some of the taxonomy and filling in the blanks."