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The development of a resilient weblog ranking metric within the global blogosphere, capable of identifying the most important or influential weblogs around, forms the central aspect of this paper. Because well-established ranking algorithms for traditional web pages are not perfectly applicable to the deviant linking characteristics of the blogosphere, blog engines, such as Technorati, BlogPulse or PostRank have developed their own tailor-made ranking metric. This paper will analyze and compare the ranking criteria of these service providers and reveal their conceptional shortcomings and discuss their strengths. Ultimate objective of this paper is to introduce a novel ranking metric, the so-called “BlogIntelligence-Impact-Score” or “BI-Impact” for short. It represents one of the central informational offerings of the forthcoming “BlogIntelligence” portal.
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As stated on http://www.blogpulse.com/ under BlogPulse Stats in April 2011.
DBC ranking table for February 2011: http://www.deutscheblogcharts.de/archiv/2011-2.html.
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Bross, J., Richly, K., Kohnen, M. et al. Identifying the top-dogs of the blogosphere. Soc. Netw. Anal. Min. 2, 53–67 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13278-011-0027-7
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