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I wanted to write about this but don’t know why it always missed. I ahave a few blogs added to which I have subscribed via RSS and Email. I prefer going to http://reader.google.com to get the daily dose of all the posts. Below is the list and an explanation why I have chosen them.

1. John Chow - This guy needs no introduction. He makes huge amoun of money online and also provides great tips on how he makes money from his blog. His reviews are simply great and he keeps coming up with new ideas all the time. 

2. Shoemoney - Jeremy Schoemaker has wonderful posts about affiliate marketing and the latest happenings in the search engine world. I like this guy for being  what he is.  Shoemoney  writes whatever he wants and  dosent really care about what people think about him. He has a great fan following. I got to know him via Digitalpoint Forums.

3. Inside AdSense - For every serious AdSense publisher, this is a must. Subscribing to Inside AdSense will keep you up to date on latest changes, news and updates happening with Google AdSense.

3. Matt Cutts - Matt Cutts heads the spam department at Google. Subscribing to his blog is a must for everyone who owns at least one website and is serious on knowing how Google is treating it. Matt’s blog is an unofficial one but he really helps people by explaining the Dos and Donts forwebsites with respect to search engines.

4. Official Google Blog - Latest happenings and announcements from Google. They are coming up with so many products. One has to be up to date on this one.

5. Search Engine Roundtable -  Serious with SEO, SEM, link building etc.? You have to read this blog everyday. These guys have good updates all the time.

6. SEO Black Hat - I subscribed to them after having a look at a couple of their posts but nothing great after that. Seems like all the black hat tricks are paid (of which I am obviously not bothered of). I might unsubscribe from there pretty soon.

7. SEOMoz - SEO, SEO and more SEO. These guys really provide indepth knowledge of Search Engines, SEO etc. They also squeeze info about their employees and co-workers which makes the blog a bit more interesting.

8. Yahoo! Search Blog - YAAAAWN!!! Nothing much here but have to be up to date on whats up with Yahoo Search Engine.

9. Live Search’s Weblog - Again nothing much but have to keep up to date with this as well.

10. Inside AdWords - As an advertiser it is necessary to know about the latest happenings, changes and updates going on at Google.  More intrestingly, the new features and offers.

11. The Affiliate Toolbox - Checked this blog a few days ago. This guy gives real nice tips on making money with affiliate marketing.

12. 45n5 - Great tips on making money online. This guy has all his posts in form of videos which makes life more easy.

13. Alokk - Blog by a friend cum mentor of mine who is a handwriting expert. Excellent tips and a must read for every human being.

14. John Cow - Nice tips on making money online plus latest happenings and news on affiliate and search engine marketing.

I won’t say that these are the best blogs but are the ones I read everyday. If you think you have a blog that would interest me then please post in comments below.

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Wikia Search alpha is online. I have played around with this new search. The most exciting feature is the profile of people which gets listed with keywords. this makes very easy to find information about a person. I tried to search Matt Cutts and I found him right there with a couple of pictures. Now to find more about him, all I have to do is check out his profile. This profile is created by the user and he/she can make it private or public. You can also make friends with people having their profile and send messages to them.

Good things in Wikia Search:

1. Personal profile.
2. Wikipedia pages are not listed high. :d

Bad things noticed:

1. Search is very slow.
2. Spam/Porn/MFA sites listed high.
3. Cache pages are crawled.
4. Does not list much of my sites
5. Lot of bugs.

I have noticed lot of sites listed on Wikia Search are listed in Dmoz. I am sure they will improvise on the bugs and search results as they grow.

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Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales is ready to make Wikia Search public in few days. Wikia search is a search engine which will allow people to improve the search technology. This will be similar to Wikipedia where any person without technical knowledge can update content. Major search engines like Google, Yahoo & MSN have never disclosed their algorithms used for search technology. This has been done to avoid spammers and competitors to beat their technology. Engineers at these major search engines have been continuously involved in providing better search results and fight spammers.

The project will be launched with 50-100 million Web pages indexed which is just a fraction of what other major search engine already has. This to me sounds like a search engine controlled by public engines which would be very easy to exploit and manipulate. I am sure there are teams eagerly waiting for this. Many black hat SEOs would love Wikia search to grow and be better than Google after Google’s regular updates and punishments for black hats.

This also means that like Wikipedia there would be some admins who can change search results and undo changes done by public. Does this sound like what is happening at Dmoz? Will be see websites belonging to these admins on top of the search results all the time? It dosen’t seem to be likely after seeing how Wikipedia is being handled nowadays. The good thing is that Google might take this a threat and start punishing the Wikipedia pages which rank high (you know how much I hate it) :d. For those of you who dont know, Google has already announced their project similar to Wikipedia known as Google Knowl. Is Wikia Search and answer to Google’s Knowl announcement? Can Wikipedia really beat Google’s search quality. All we can do is wait and see!!!!

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