Plying across the western Internet, I happened to stumble upon the service BlogPulse , owned by Nielsen BuzzMetrics . “Hm ...” I thought. - “The name painfully reminds the Yandex Pulse of the Blogosphere. Really ripped off ?! "
Torn off, of course.
Pulse of the Blogosphere Yandex opened on April 27 of this year. I did not find the exact opening date of the BlogPulse service, but the first press release with its mention on the Nielsen BuzzMetrics website dates back to March 28, 2005. And in May 2005, clickable trend charts are already on BlogPulse (here is the corresponding press release ). ')
There are almost no differences in the Yandex Blog and Pulse services and Nielsen BuzzMetrics. The only significant difference is that Nielsen allows you to build charts only 6 months ago, while Yandex can display charts several years ago. But it is understandable - figly, Yandex has to index some miserable 2 million blogs against the 49 million that Nielsen currently indexed.
It's funny that the "strange" coincidence of the names of two identical services in the official press release of Yandex is modestly silent. It is also surprising that neither in the news on Webplanet , nor in the HabraHabr's article devoted to the discovery of the Yandex service, neither said anything about it. Dudes did not bathe to find where Yandex’s legs grow from ...