Amatomu
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Amatomu is a blog
search engine
and article aggregator, focusing on blogs published in South Africa
. It was founded by local web entrepreneurs Matthew Buckland and Vincent Maher
in March 2007, while working for one of the country's largest news websites the Mail & Guardian Online.
According to an article in Finweek, the site was still in its early testing phase with a select group of users when someone not in the test group leaked news about it and it was deluged with bloggers looking to use the service.
The site ranks bloggers and provides charts and statistics for their blogs. It also has the ability to track trends and monitor keywords in the local blogosphere via buzzgraphs.
Amatomu organizes bloggers by topic and lists blog keywords.
Blog
A blog is a type of website or part of a website supposed to be updated with new content from time to time. Blogs are usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video. Entries are commonly displayed in...
search engine
Search engine
A search engine is an information retrieval system designed to help find information stored on a computer system. The search results are usually presented in a list and are commonly called hits. Search engines help to minimize the time required to find information and the amount of information...
and article aggregator, focusing on blogs published in South Africa
South Africa
The Republic of South Africa is a country in southern Africa. Located at the southern tip of Africa, it is divided into nine provinces, with of coastline on the Atlantic and Indian oceans...
. It was founded by local web entrepreneurs Matthew Buckland and Vincent Maher
Vincent Maher
Vincent John Maher is the CTO and co-founder of Motribe Mobile Networks. Previously he was the portfolio manager for social media at Vodacom, a South African mobile telecommunications operator...
in March 2007, while working for one of the country's largest news websites the Mail & Guardian Online.
According to an article in Finweek, the site was still in its early testing phase with a select group of users when someone not in the test group leaked news about it and it was deluged with bloggers looking to use the service.
The site ranks bloggers and provides charts and statistics for their blogs. It also has the ability to track trends and monitor keywords in the local blogosphere via buzzgraphs.
Amatomu organizes bloggers by topic and lists blog keywords.
See also
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- BlogScopeBlogScopeBlogScope is a search engine for the blogosphere with advanced analysis and visualization technology.BlogScope is outcome of an ongoing research project at the University of Toronto...
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- SphereSphere (Website)Sphere was a blog search engine. The Sphere search engine delivered blog posts based on algorithms that combine semantic matching with authority factors to deliver results relevant to the search query.Sphere also organized bloggers by topic....
- TechnoratiTechnoratiTechnorati is an Internet search engine for searching blogs. By June 2008, Technorati was indexing 112.8 million blogs and over 250 million pieces of tagged social media...
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