Nielsen BuzzMetrics’ BlogPulse search engine is a unique portal for experiencing blogs and the blogging universe. BlogPulse combines high-quality blog search with a suite of compelling tools and analytics to provide an evolving, ever-changing window into the blogosphere.

Blog Search

Since its launch in 2004, BlogPulse has emerged as one of the Internet’s premier search engines for blog-only data. Visitors to BlogPulse.com search through an index of millions of blogs by keyword or by URL/link, looking for the latest issues, trends and discoveries in the blogosphere. An easy-to-use Trend Graph interface also allows users to plot and track blog buzz visually over time (one, two, three and six months).

Daily Analysis

BlogPulse automatically discovers trends by harnessing the explosive growth of so-called weblogs, or "blogs." Blogs are self-published web pages authored by a growing number of individuals and groups interested in the power of the Internet as an unfiltered information publishing and dissemination tool. Similar to online diaries, they can be updated and added to easily through blogging software.

Each day, Nielsen BuzzMetrics's BlogPulse technology mines the most common entries in hundreds of thousands of blog posts to uncover the issues, blogs, news items, Web sites and personalities that bloggers are discussing. The BlogPulse home page also features daily stats (total blogs in our index, number of new blog posts indexed, number of new blogs discovered) and BlogPulse Live, a graph that plots discussion by topic in real time.

Currently, BlogPulse.com’s daily analysis includes:

• Top 40 blogs
• Top 40 blog posts
• Top 40 links
• Top 40 news stories
• Top 40 news sources
• Top 40 personalities
• Top 40 key phrases

Special graphing, conversation-tracking and profile tools provide different views of the blogosphere.

If you want to know who’s who in the blogosphere, use the BlogPulse Profile section to determine rankings among top bloggers, posting behaviors and trends, citation patterns, frequently-cited news sources and similar blogs.

BlogPulse data is frequently folded into Nielsen BuzzMetrics’ analyses, trend reports and client updates because of the fresh, timely information it provides about blog influence, social networking and the spread of information on the Internet.

BlogPulse applies Nielsen BuzzMetrics’s cutting-edge content-discovery and text-mining technologies, and is a showcase of research and innovations from company’s Science & Innovation Labs in Israel.