FeedRank® - FeedRank

Google buys PostRank, a social analytics service.

FeedRank Admin — Sat, 04 Jun 2011 17:21:08 GMT

Google acquisition of PostRank is a good news for RSSMicro and its FeedRank® offering. We briefly discussed about the PostRank in 2009 here. Although PostRank targeting social media such as Twitter and Facebook has become very valuable for Google but RSSMicro FeedRank® goes beyond social media analytics and has a far more reaching capabilities that targets the entire web.

Congrats to PostRank team.

RSSMicro Feed Submission Stats - May 2 to May 9 2011

FeedRank Admin — Wed, 11 May 2011 05:55:47 GMT

RSSMicro feed submission service has been a phenomenon which has certainly exceeded our expectations. In recent weeks we have seen a growing demand for RSSMicro feed submission and FeedRank calculation. Below is a quick look at the feed submission stats on RSSMicro website for the week starting May 2 to May 9 2011:

Sources submitted to RSSMicro: 1470 unique sources.

Following top 30 sources account for 85.32% of all the submissions:

1....webs.com.................%8.08333
2....wikispaces.com...........%7.14327
3....wetpaint.com.............%6.85153
4....diigo.com................%6.17669
5....delicious.com............%5.55195
6....insanejournal.com........%5.02445
7....thoughts.com.............%4.72092
8....blog.com.................%4.21111
9....xanga.com................%3.62468
10...blurpalicious.com........%3.61289
11...ordpress.com.............%3.14139
12...gather.com...............%3.11192
13...livejournal.com..........%2.59326
14...bravejournal.com.........%2.53433
15...onsugar.com..............%2.46065
16...url.org..................%2.4135
17...wikidot.com..............%1.96263
18...blogspot.com.............%1.79466
19...hubpages.com.............%1.40566
20...links2rss.com............%1.25832
21...shutterfly.com...........%1.23474
22...oyax.com.................%1.10508
23...rankbuilder.com..........%1.10213
24...bukmark.net..............%0.8045
25...feedburner.com...........%0.78092
26...sosblog.com..............%0.7102
27...html2rss.com.............%0.5216
28...rssmix.com...............%0.49213
29...foxfire-security.com.....%0.46266
30...experienceproject.com....%0.4273
31...OTHER....................%14.68

Have a nice submission...

RSSMicro Team.

HTML5 Server-Sent Events and Worker Processes to paralyze search engines

FeedRank Admin — Sun, 24 Oct 2010 23:16:45 GMT

We published articles here before that talks about AJAX programming and the impact it has on search engines. AJAX allows applications on the web to provide a better and more interactive user experience; it does not require a user to refresh a page or follow a link to see more content, yet the content seamlessly become available by the actions user take on the site. This has a huge impact on the search engine. Although there are some controversial fixes the content seems mainly to remain inaccessible to the search engine crawlers.

Although AJAX adds interactive features to a site, it still follows the traditional response/request architecture of the web. For the content to become available an action by the user is required, this action such as a “mouse click” sends an HTTPRequest and receives an HTTPResponse from the server. In addition to the user action, continues polling or frequent and timely requests can make this possible but the technique is not efficient and consumes a lot of bandwidth and resource on the server.

To fix the problems with the application responsiveness and interactivity, HTML5 offers Server-Sent event and Worker Processes. The Server-Sent event has a profound effect on the web and changes the way we access information on the web. This truly makes the web upside-down with no request/response architecture to follow. To learn more about the HTML Server-Sent event click here. HTML5 Worker Process likewise employs user’s computer power instead of the consuming resources on the server to calculate complex mathematical operations or performs data analysis; the results of these processes would not be available to search engines too.

AJAX programming along HTML5 Server-Sent and Worker Process are search engines nightmares, as we noted before search engines have to use other ways to crawl and index content on the web, it will become increasingly more difficult for search engines to crawl next generation apps that are comprised of AJAX or HTML5 components.

Feed in its RSS or Atom format more likely to become the preferred method for site content distribution and increasingly being crawled by search engines to find new content on the web.

FeedRank Team

USPTO trademark registration completed for FeedRank®

FeedRank Admin — Sat, 02 Oct 2010 18:14:33 GMT

FeedRank^® is now a registered trademark by United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), here is the trademark description that we are very excited about:

Providing online non-downloadable search engine computer software for search of XML-based feeds in the nature of RSS (Really Simple Syndication) and ATOM feeds; Providing online non-downloadable computer software utilizing algorithms for ranking XML-based feeds in the nature of RSS (Really Simple Syndication) and ATOM feeds, based on importance, relevance, quality, and update frequency.

For more information search USPTO website here:
http://www.uspto.gov/trademarks/index.jsp

Visit RSSMicro to calculate your site FeedRank^®
http://www.rssmicro.com/feedsubmit.web

Facebook News Feed Patent, Wordpress PubSubHubBub Support, and Google real-time indexing, what is FeedRank role here?

FeedRank Admin — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 21:52:29 GMT

Last month some important news came out which were related to feeds, real-time web publishing and indexing. The first news was about a controversial patent that was awarded to Facebook for “Dynamically providing a news feed about a user of a social network”. The patent is huge for many reasons, but most importantly signifies the role of feed as the preferred publishing method on social networks and once again shows how feed is turning into the very fabrics of the web and how businesses are rushing to have more footprints on this very fabric.

In terms of real-time data distribution, PubSubHubBub protocol is now more streamlined with Wordpress and Google itself and more likely others will join this frenzy by implementing PSHB hubs. It seems likely that this trend will change the web and how we publish and consume the data, and as far as apps running on the web, feed will play an increasingly important role for us.

And finally it seems likely that publishers, subscribers, apps, search engines will work more off of RSS and Atom feeds rather than HTML pages and our mission is more demanding and critical at the time while providing a mechanism for ranking RSS and Atom feeds.

Links:

Facebook News Feed Patent:
http://www.allfacebook.com/2010/02/facebook-feed-patent/

Wordpress PubSubHubBub Support:
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/pubsubhubbub/

Google Real-Time Indexing:
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/google_developing_real_time_index.php

FeedRank, the technology of ranking real-time data on the web

FeedRank Admin — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 20:44:35 GMT

FeedRank role in real-time search
It has been over 3 years since RSSMicro started to analyze the content published on RSS feeds, our primary goal was to identify top publishers and measure the quality of the content as well as their update frequency. The significance of working with RSS or Atom feeds is the access to the most fresh content on the web with some acceptable latency. Today the same concept is being adopted by Google and others to distribute real-time data on the web using RSS and Atom feeds available on content publishers.

RSSMicro quickly took advantage of PubSubHubBub and rssCloud protocols and merged the existing ranking system it developed over the years known as FeedRank with real-time data by implementing these two real-time protocols on millions of RSS and Atom feeds already in its index. The result was significant and promising, for the first time RSSMicro achieved a high level of relevancy on real-time data published on RSS feeds.

FeedRank which is the RSSMicro technology behind ranking RSS and Atom feeds is now taking real-time data to a new level offering a solution to the noisy and irrelevant content published in real-time.

Twitter and Real-Time Protocols
Twitter is known as the leader of the real-time search, it has real-time distribution deals with Google and Microsoft. So many other companies like OneRiot basically follow Twitter to create their own real-time search engines. Unlike others RSSMicro offers a global solution which does not only rely on one or two sources and instead follows the recent developments in real-time technologies and solutions first offered by Google. RSSMicro offers relevant and rich content along images and videos as they are being published in real-time. Currently identified many Twitter and FriendFeeds accounts, news publishers, blogs and many other sources on millions of RSS feeds which have been closely monitored over the years. In theory, any system which relies on real-time protocols should surpass Twitter in volume and FeedRank will be able to help to add relevancy and accuracy to the equation. The trend in which people implement these protocols is going up as we see this on WordPress and some other blog platforms and here we need to scale up the FeedRank processes so that we can follow the growth we anticipate in the near future.

Twitter: Real-Time Content vs Public Opinion
As we see the growing trend in using real-time data distribution technologies by many news publishers, blog platforms and businesses, one question remains unanswered and that is what would be the role of Twitter in maybe 2 or 3 years from now?

Twitter is a 140 characters messaging service which has limitation in posting images, videos, HTML content and more, it seems likely that if people stay loyal and use Twitter and enjoy tweeting about their status and some other stories that find interesting, Twitter will become the source of public opinions and trends on the web rather than real-time content unless it takes a sharp turn and re-defines its messaging and posting service and creates a full-featured content publishing tool, at that point it would be more like another blog or messaging platform that compete with other tools already available on the market. However the role of being the source of public opinions and trends will remain the greatest asset of Twitter as millions of loyal users tweet on regular basis about current events and stories.

Find featured RSS feeds on RSSMicro here:
http://www.rssmicro.com/featured_rss_feeds.web

FeedRank on Twitter:
http://twitter.com/FeedRank

About FeedRank:
http://www.rssmicro.com/FeedRank.web

FeedRank Team.

Why OneRiot is an unsuccessful business model in real-time search market.

FeedRank Admin — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 18:36:31 GMT

One of my friends pointed out to the recent news from OneRiot, saying that their business is gaining ground and that they are becoming a big player in real-time search market, here is the original news on TechCrunch:

http://techcrunch.com/2010/02/18/oneriots-new-realtime-search-api-served-up-with-a-side-of-revenue/

Here are some thoughts on this story:

It may seem strange to some people but I do not see any momentum on the OneRiot side, 97% of their search (momentum) coming from API, and here is the problem: free API search alone is not a good indication of a healthy business model, OneRiot is making high volume free API search calls as the last resort because:

Consumers don't see much value to their search comparing to Twitter search results.

OneRiot traffic for the past 6 months is downward, despite a good coverage by TechCrunch and venture funding.

Lack of innovation, sticking to very limited sources, I am assuming 90% are Tweets, 8% are Diggs, 2% other posts, no real-time protocols available for Twitter and many more...

Businesses use free API when they see lack of consumer demand for their product in an attempt to win some traffic and some market share. OneRiot lack of consumer demand shows that they are basically an unsuccessful business model using the last shot in an attempt to make their product appealing to some market leaders. A successful business first creates a unique and competitive product, builds solid consumer demand on top of it and as the demand goes up and to address the exponential growth creates the API for the partners not VISE VERSA.

OneRiot is mostly a duplicate work of Twitter trying to pretend a large/important real-time player ready to be bought. Frankly, I do not see OneRiot (as its current state) to be a real-time search engine. Their real-time search functionality is Twitter based without any chance to expose recent developments in real-time search technology simply because Twitter doesn't support PubSubHubBub or rssCloud protocols. Despite all that RSSMicro is a working example of recent developments in real-time search first introduced by Google and other marker leaders using PubSubHubBub and rssCloud, RSSMicro opens completely new possibilities to a decentralized real-time search, showcasing relevancy and accuracy of the search results by using its proprietary FeedRank algorithm.

Cheers!

FeedRank work space grows as Google Reader adds custom feeds to the sites without a feed.

FeedRank Admin — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 01:41:02 GMT

Google announced a new feature on Google Reader, this time website owners without a feed can use Google to generate a feed for their sites. They can add the feed to the site and let users enjoy updates by subscribing to the feed. This work can be done in a couple of minutes.

http://googlereader.blogspot.com/2010/01/follow-changes-to-any-website.html

It is important to note that the significance of this work is not the reader ability to notify you with the site updates but is the ability to create a feed using Google infrastructure. The feed can be added to the site and being updated outside of Google reader. You can see a sample Google generated feed for a site without a feed here:

http://www.google.com/notificationservice/webchanges/webfeeds/1451785850960242912

This would expand FeedRank to potentially all content on the web. More and more content would be FeedRank enabled as feed become the standard mechanism for distributing site updates on the web. In other words, if someone wants to deal with updates on the web they better use a feed. This has a huge impact on the web as we know it.

For real-time search players this could also be a turning point, feed will have the most recent updates on any website and it is the best candidate for real-time search engines, there is no better mechanism that can support real-time data distribution while keeping the decentralized nature of the web.

This means more work for us to do here in RSSMicro, and if RSSMicro can show how FeedRank works on 4 Million feeds, it sure can do it for 400 Million feeds and more.

Cheers!

RSSMicro to launch PubSubHub server, joins real-time data infrastructure

FeedRank Admin — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 21:06:30 GMT

RSSMicro is happy to announce its PubSubHub server at: http://pubsubhub.rssmicro.com

RSSMicro real-time PubSubHub along FeedRank technology brings RSSMicro to the forefront spot in real-time data delivery and search systems with the most relevant content available in its index.

Feel free to ping the hub if you are a publisher or subscribe to get the most relevant content in real-time.

More about PubSubHub protocol here.

RSSMicro completes the integration of rssCloud and PubSubHubBub real-time protocols into FeedRank

FeedRank Admin — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 01:00:43 GMT

Today RSSMicro completes the integration of rssCloud and PubSubHubBub two real-time data distribution protocols into its proprietary ranking system for RSS and Atom feeds.

RSSMicro is the leading RSS feed search engine, since 2006 it has been working on RSS feed discovery as well as ranking and indexing millions of feeds in its database using FeedRank algorithm. Today by integrating two leading real-time data distribution protocols it has achieved a milestone in indexing relevant information in real-time. RSSMicro API partners as well as individuals can enjoy relevant articles, images and videos in real-time. For API information contact RSSMicro at info[at]rssmicro.com

Follow real-time news on Obama here:
http://www.rssmicro.com/search/Obama

Follow RSSMicro on Twitter:
http://twitter.com/RSSMicro

Google starts to crawl RSS feeds, exploring PubSub protocol

FeedRank Admin — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 18:46:51 GMT

RSSMicro has been working on crawling, ranking and indexing RSS feeds since 2006, the idea of real-time data discovery and data distribution has been the primary goal of RSSMicro and now it took 3 years for Google to realize the power of RSS feeds. It apparently starts to crawl RSS feeds while exploring the use of PubSub protocol.

This is a big news for RSSMicro since it reiterates that we are on the right track and as the leader in RSS feed crawling and indexing along innovative FeedRank technology, RSSMicro has a huge potential to be a very competitive player in this area:

http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2009/10/using-rssatom-feeds-to-discover-new.html

Congrats RSSMicro on this news.........

FeedRank vs PostRank

FeedRank Admin — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 18:36:31 GMT

Came across a company that uses PostRank as a trademark, here is a thought:

In the API they like to mention about Feed Rank (two words) probably because it is too cumbersome to rank every single post and it doesn't make sense either when you are dealing with real-time data.

FeedRank is a concept that works in an environment that ranking posts individually is not possible or at least no longer effective, a post can inherit the rank of its feed instead. There are metrics other than post itself that could determine the rank of the source.

Google and PageRank

FeedRank Admin — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 23:27:09 GMT

A note on Google and PageRank:

Google is biased at least partially, few years ago they found out and admitted on their blog that PageRank no longer is effective. It could have exhausted even their resources to calculate PageRank regularly for trillions of pages along many quadrillion page intersections, they probably didn't put into account or expect the web exponential growth in recent years. This cumbersome process along the extensive work of SEOs made them think twice and gradually changed the algorithms to something extremely non-scientific and experimental which surprisingly worked as good as the original idea. However in this process some websites happily accepted the results their business thrived and they prosper, some eliminated or got an unfair treatment and never came back. Since then no one knows what exactly Google is doing and that is the concern since nobody knows what portion of the web is missing or hidden from users.

Twitter is a successful business model not for the complex algorithms or UI or anything in that nature, it is successful because "everything" chronologically appears on the search with almost no manipulation. I believe it was the most important factor that made Twitter so popular and let it capitalize on Google manipulative system.

Good to note that the PageRank original concept is completely in contrary to the requirements of the real-time search, older an article is, more likely to accumulate external links, therefore PageRank tends to give higher scores to older pages and vise versa new pages have almost no rank.

FeedRank vs PageRank

FeedRank Admin — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 00:19:19 GMT

Few words regarding FeedRank on RSSMicro:

FeedRank is neither an indication of link popularity nor a traffic or usage report but a computational algorithm that is patented or trademarked for quality control on RSS feeds. RSSMicro analytic and ranking services could be prioritized or calibrated for paid customers. Same as what quality control services do in other industries. I can imagine a time in which people buy and sell blogs, bloggers and other "publishing points". People in the business of buying and selling these also would be very interested in FeedRank detailed history for the publisher. There are very interesting criteria that could be added to the FeedRank algorithm for maximum accuracy.

PageRank does not indicate the freshness of the articles, in fact the basics of the PageRank algorithm results in a better rank for the older articles since older articles tend to accumulate more inbound links over time. FeedRank has its roots in the likelihood of the source to publish fresh content.

PageRank only applies to individual pages while FeedRank has a broader scope that applies to the entire site makes it a better indication of the worthiness of the site.

I will discuss more on this topic......