Lijit

Last week we released a new set of enhancements to Lijit, primarily focused on the signup process.

But there’s one feature that I’m particularly excited about but that isn’t immediately obvious: automatic blogroll crawling. What’s that you ask?

If you have a blog, it probably has a section where the you list other noteworthy blogs. These are blogs you read and basically find attention-worthy. Lijit can now automatically find this part of your blog and add all of those blogs to your Lijit search. And the Lijit server will check on your blog every day or so to see if you’ve made any changes–no need to configure things here every time you make a change.

Blogrolls form a huge implicit trust network, and no other service has really exploited them until now. Adding them to your network is just the first step, I’m also working on some blog authority algorithms that rely heavily on blogrolls. I’ll post some preliminary results soon.

So get those blogs rolling!

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