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This week, Swedish Start-up Company Twingly launched its very own top-blog lists in twelve different languages. Their blog search is delivering really good results, so it seems that the near future might look rather bleak for Technorati – and the best part is that my main blog datenschmutz ranks #44 in the German-language list!

The overall winner of the new rating is – what a surprise – Technorati. And this is what Michael, or in this case Robin, thinks about the new charts:

Twingly, the social blog search engine that prides itself in being completely spam-free, has launched BlogRank as a way to identify the 100 most important blogs in 12 different languages based on a proprietary ranking system. It’s very similar to what Technorati has been trying to achieve with their Authority ranking, i.e. creating a Google PageRank for blogs. [...] They also stress that it shows the blogosphere according to their data, and that it’s not necessarily 100% accurate. It’s a nice feature, but late in the game, and you’ve got to ask yourself how obsolete both Twingly’s and Technorati’s ranking would be if Google were actually the next to introduce the next ‘Google PageRank for blogs’.

The ratings are based on the so called Twingly blog-rank:

Twingly Top 100, is the listing of the 100 biggest blogs in 12 different languages based on our ranking system (which is mainly focusing on inlinks and likes among other things). BlogRank is a number between 1-10 that shows how big a blog is. It’s similar to Google PageRank but only for blogs.

I have to agree – but the question is if and when Google will launch such a specialized PageRank. Sooner or later they will be forced to do so, as the rapid dynamics of blogs calls for a different measurement, otherwise the main index will become too clogged over time. But until then, I’m very very happy about number 44, especially considering that I’m writing about a growing, yet still pretty small niche compared to e.g. tabloid or pop culture blogs.

Why the name datadirt?

I started datadirt only a couple of months ago, but I’ve been blogging in German for some years – that’s actually where the name of the blog comes from. My German blog is called datenschmutz, which is a wordplay, as the German term for privacy protection is “Datenschmutz”, while Schmutz literally means dirt. So datadirt is the literal translation of the name – I got so used to it that I decided to stick with the name. Of course I’m not translating every single posting, but I really like blogging in two languages; brushes up my written English and enables me to blog about topics which are hot in the US but not in Europe. Take affiliate marketing for example: some of the best and most lucrative networks out there only accept English sites, as the network owners want to keep track of their affiliate portfolio. Very understandable, but still a drag if you only operate German sites. So to cut a long story short: thanks for your support – and I hope datadirt will turn up in Twigly’s English list next year – so thanks a lot for you interest and your support!

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