Chad, In your experience, do trending bots have a disproportionate participation in the search results for trending topics? Have you done any analysis like that?
Doug Williams @dougw On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 10:43 AM, Burhan TANWEER <btanw...@gmail.com> wrote: > I agree with him. Search trends are not available in xml format. I will > appreciate, if twitter can provide search trends in xml and so that i can > update my social search engine ExploreWWW.com with search trends in real > time. > > Thanks > Burhan > > On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 11:09 PM, TjL <luo...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Specifically >> >> 1) There are WAY to many "trending topic" bots which fill search >> results with useless clutter >> >> 2) I'd love to see a "trending topics" list that does NOT include hash >> tags, you know, to find out what ordinary people are talking about :-) >> >> I know this is the wrong place for it (sorry) but I'm not sure where else >> to go. >> >> TjL > > > > -- > Sincerely, > > Burhan Tanweer > www.explorewww.com > expl...@explorewww.com > > -- Doug Williams do...@igudo.com http://www.igudo.com