I whipped up a quick WordPress plugin to add entry reference searching using Bloglines, Feedster, Technorati and Blogdigger. It is pretty basic, but does the job. I got the idea from Jeremy Zawodny’s Blog, where I saw it for the first time earlier today.
This is one of those obvious things that I kick myself over because I should have thought of it a long time ago.
Update 5:50 pm 27 Aug 2004: I modified the plugin a little bit so that I can use it to create links that search for references to this site instead of just a specific blog entry. Check out the ‘reference search’ area of the side section just above the calendar.
Update 12:10 pm 28 Aug 2004: I’ve removed Blogdigger from the reference search plugin because their search seems to only work occasionally.
One reply on “Blog Entry References”
Hi Joseph, I’m sorry Blogdigger didn’t work so well for you. What specifc problems were you seeing?
I’m guessing that when you added a search for your whole site, Blogdigger returned less results than expected. This is related to what I mentioned in my previous comment; when I first built the link search app, I was focusing on tracking conversations between blog posts specifically, not general site links. As such, Blogdigger’s link search looks at the whole link. As time went on I realized this needed improvement, and I’ve been working on a new version that should be in place soon.
Either way, I’d appreciate any specific comments, it would help in improving Blogdigger. Thanks!