Comments on: More FeedBurner Magic – Redisplaying Your Feed Content

By: Greg Lems

Greg Lems — Tue, 12 Jul 2005 22:02:09 +0000

Thanks for the explanation Dick. I think I might not be explaining myself clearly though.

What I meant was there are people (like Fred Wilson mentioned above) who have had their content ripped off most likely by a cut-and-paster, not by someone using a tool like BuzzBoost. Can people like Fred tell FeedBurner “Watch my blog, and monitor if text from my blog shows up in other blogs or other locations”?

It would require massive indexing, perhaps more than it would be worth. And, like you said, you’d like to keep BuzzBoost non-indexed, which I think is great. Maybe it could be accomplished with a Google hack, not sure. Anyway, just batting around some ideas, thanks for your response.

Greg Lems

By: Dick Costolo

Dick Costolo — Tue, 12 Jul 2005 16:46:34 +0000

hey Greg, great point – we thought of this and we
specifically coded buzzboost to prevent against this sort of rogue use of the
service. There is no search engine juice or any indexing at all of the
content that can be achieved with BuzzBoost because it is pure
javascript and contains absolutely no content or links to content in the
code we generate for publishers. We specifically built it this way so
that it could not be used as a service to “snatch” indexable content for
the purposes of advertising matches or search engine juice. As we have
released it, buzzBoost is a great tool for publishers and is of no real use
to spammers or those looking to drop ads into a page matching somebody
else’s content. We are going to add buzzboost tracking to publisher stats as well, so that if you’re using it and want to see who’s driving traffic to you through affiliate uses of buzzboost, you’ll be able to see that. We will do whatever we can to minimize rogue use. ok, back to your host, brad feld.

By: Greg Linden

Greg Linden — Tue, 12 Jul 2005 16:03:58 +0000

If you like the FeedBurner inline headlines, you might be interested in Findory's inline as well. http://findory.com/inline/ It allows you to put news and blog headlines on your site for categories, search terms, even headlines from your personalized Findory front page. Inline Findory also has related articles to the articles you have posted from other blogs. For example, here is the inline for related articles to Feld Thoughts: http://findory.com/inline/source?source=Feld%20Thoughts&ib=1 It's a great way to discover other interesting weblog articles.

By: Greg Lems

Greg Lems — Tue, 12 Jul 2005 15:27:37 +0000

Brad,

Is “plagarism detection” something that Feedburner could add as a product offering (or maybe Technorati)? Seems like bloggers would find that valuable, they wouldn’t have to worry that their posts are being ripped off into some realm that they don’t frequent.

I enjoy reading your posts, I have been a lurker up until today.

Greg Lems
Louisville, CO