Intelliseek Blog Pulse Blog Gets (Lame) Update

While we appreciate the exposure, many of your comments regarding BlogPulse and its blog are simply incorrect.

First, the BlogPulse blog does support permalinks (here's the http://blog.blogpulse.com/archives/000178.html permalink to yesterday's post). This
is a common way in which permalinks are placed by default in MovableType blogs.

Secondly, BlogPulse does support simple and advanced search, both by keyword or by URL/link (from the BlogPulse home page">) and from other pages throughout the BlogPulse web site. It also supports advanced search.

And the BlogPulse blog, now a simple click away from the home page, is a unique, "add-on" feature to the fuller BlogPulse web site, a site whose purpose is to analyze daily posts from an index of millions of blogs. Our regular and enthusiastic users know exactly what the blog is and why it's there. Intelliseek takes great pride in its ability to synthesize and map vast quantities of blog data, and our blog's primary author, Sue MacDonald, spent 22 years as an award-winning journalist before joining the Intelliseek team. As such, BlogPulse is proud to set higher standards for the blogging community.

-- Pete Blackshaw, Intelliseek

What I am suggesting about the navigation of your site and blog is that the link to the blog -- and even knowing you are there when you get there -- is not being made clear. If the BlogPulse Blog was reached through a nav button, instead of the current link in the midst of an already very busy page, it would be much simpler to understand that the site has a blog blog.

Apparently you reached the permalink by clicking on the link through "recent posts" on the left column. I'd like to know how a visitor would know that is the way to find the permalink?

In every one of the thousands of blogs I've read that have permalinks, you reach them by clicking on a link below the post that says "permalink."

BlogPulse is a GREAT service to bloggers and all researchers. I use it all the time. Since it is about and for bloggers I hope it ends up having a great blog.