"Yandex" felt "Pulse"

On the search for blogs "Yandex" appeared "beta" of the new service - "The pulse of the blogosphere . " The graphs that he builds reflect the way in which the attention of bloggers to certain phenomena was distributed over time. In “Pulse” you can set up to six keywords (phrases and more complex structures), and it will display a graph with their popularity curves for a selected period of time - 2 or 6 months, six months, a year or two, all the time.

"The pulse of the blogosphere" is both a toy and an analysis tool. With it, for example, you can trace the dynamics of the media popularity of a public person or brand. You can get the popularity rating of football teams in the blogosphere or learn the history of attention to the slang words.

According to Yandex (PDF), today there are more than 2 million online diaries in RuNet. The Russian-language blogosphere is growing faster than the global one and has increased by 74% over the past six months, while the global one is only 41%. If such growth rates continue, in 2008 there will be 10 million blogs in RuNet. Moreover, Russian bloggers continue to write more actively than foreign ones. 11% of all posts by the global blogger are Russian-speaking diaries.