[Air-l] 'Fine grained' weblog tracking software

[David Brake]

There are a number of sites that attempt to catalogue the most  
popular weblogs overall, based on inward links (I have catalogued the  
ones I know of here: http://www.netvouz.com/davidbrake?tags=weblog 
+search) but none that I know of that let you know the most popular  
on a given topic or keyword over time (you can use some to search for  
a keyword then show you the top-ranked blogs within that but that  
again favours the most popular overall not the most popular within a  
given subject domain). I would also be interested in a search engine  
that could tell you which blogs are the most popular in a given  
country or region - or better still an engine that does both, telling  
you which blogs are, for example, the most popular blogs about the  
Iraq war based in the UK.

I don't suppose there are any search engines that let you search by  
the (expressed or inferred) demographics of the poster either.

If anyone knows of a specialist search engine which does any of the  
above could you let me know? (And if any of you have the ear of one  
of the search engine providers could you encourage them to provide  
these tools?)

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David Brake, Doctoral Student in Media and Communications, London  
School of Economics & Political Science
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