Pulse2 Technology and Social Media News » Blogdigger http://pulse2.com Sat, 26 May 2012 21:27:32 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Sonic Mountain, Parent Company of Odeo Acquiring Blog Search Engine, Blogdigger http://pulse2.com/2008/03/19/sonic-mountain-parent-company-of-odeo-acquiring-blog-search-engine-blogdigger/ http://pulse2.com/2008/03/19/sonic-mountain-parent-company-of-odeo-acquiring-blog-search-engine-blogdigger/#comments Wed, 19 Mar 2008 10:45:07 +0000 Amit Chowdhry http://pulse2.com/2008/03/19/sonic-mountain-parent-company-of-odeo-acquiring-blog-search-engine-blogdigger/ Continue reading →]]> Blogdigger Logo
I’ve never used Blogdigger until I read this article, but I’m impressed by the way it’s designed.  Blogdigger’s homepage and search results are just as clean and organized as Google.  Below is a screen shot:
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If I designed this site, I’d narrow that huge Google Ads script at the top of the search results.

Blogdigger will be making an official announcement soon that SonicMountain, the parent company of Odeo will be acquiring them.  Blogdiggers’s search technology will be integrated into Odeo and the founder/CEO of Blogdigger, Greg Gershman will join Odeo as the VP of Search and Engineering.

Odeo will be relaunching in April.  Odeo searches will use Blogdigger’s technology to search for audio and video files. Blogdigger will run independently and will continue to index blog posts.  Blogdigger started around 2003 and it was one of the first RSS-based blog search engines according to ReadWriteWeb.

The acquisition amount was undisclosed.

Odeo was started by Evan Williams and Noah Glass.  Evan and Noah both started Audioblog and Pyra Labs previously and received funding from Charles River Ventures.  But then Williams bought back Charles River’s equity and revamped Odeo.  About 3 months after Evan Williams wrote in his blog that Odeo was for sale, Sonic Mountain acquired them.  In September 2007, Sonic Mountain also bought FireAnt, a video RSS aggregation media player and website.

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