March 1, 2005 -- Blogdigger, Inc., a search engine for blogs and syndicated content, and Webjay, a community playlist site, announced today a strategic partnership. Webjay will utilize
Blogdigger's Media Search technology to provide enhanced audio and video search to their users to aid them in quickly finding audio/video content. Blogdigger will utilize Webjay's
PlayThisPage technology to enable users of its Media Search to quickly and easily create a playlist to listen or view and save media search results.
"The problem Webjay had is that both search and playlists are hard, and we couldn't do a really great job with playlists if we spent our resources on search. We tried other methods for
searching our site's web pages, but the search results just weren't very good in terms of our application's unique requirements," said Lucas Gonze, founder and creator of WebJay. "The
information needed to do a great job with Webjay is in our RSS feeds more than in our web pages. Blogdigger was able to do a better job because Blogdigger specializes in RSS
searches."
Blogdigger's syndicated content aggregation platform indexes new additions to Webjay's playlists as they are updated, allowing Webjay's users to quickly find audio or video by keyword
search. Search results from Blogdigger will direct users back to Webjay's site, helping them discover new media content.
"Webjay's growing community of individuals creating playlists of freely available music on the Web represents a tremendous source of information for our Media Search engine," said Greg
Gershman, President and founder of Blogdigger. "In addition, Webjay's PlayThisPage technology enables our users to capture an audio/video search result feed as a playlist, saving a
persistent copy of the search for future use. The combination of these technologies demonstrates how RSS can be used to create a better search experience. We're excited to be working with
Webjay to demonstrate the possibilities for enhanced media search with RSS."
About Webjay
Webjay is a free web service where visitors can make mp3 playlists of songs from legal music on the Internet, and then post the playlist to Webjay so that others can listen to their hand
picked selection.
For more information visit www.webjay.org
About Blogdigger
Blogdigger, Inc. is a search engine that provides fast, up-to-the-minute search results of the latest posts collected from blogs and syndicated content feeds, such as RSS. Blogdigger's
Media Search technology specializes in indexing the most current media content (audio, video, images) available via syndicated content feeds, providing an enhanced media search
experience.
For more information visit www.blogdigger.com