New feature launched! Blog indexing. - 4847 views

We're excited about a brand new feature we launched this morning.We catalog and index by portfolio, every minute, the top finance and stock blogs. Basically, I keep track of about 200-300 blogs for my Daily Blogwatch column. You can see my favorite 100 or so blogs right here.

These blogs are constantly being updated by their authors all throughout the day and its difficult sometimes to keep track. Often I want to keep track of only the blog posts related to my portfolio (or a sector specific portfolio). So now Stockpickr scours the Internet every minute all day long, reading automatically the top 200 blogs we've fed it, and automatically indexes relevant blog posts for every portfolio and stock page on the site.

For instance, to see all the recent blog posts that mention any stock in Warren Buffett's portfolio, go to his portfolio and look down the right hand side. First you'll see all Videos related to the portfolio, then all Blog posts related to the portfolio. Clicking on a link will take you direct to that blog.

If you go to our main page for searching blogs you can search on Cramer, for instance, and see all the blog posts related to Cramer since we started indexing. Whats the difference between this and a blog search engine like Technorati or Google Blogsearch? For one thing, we are automatically categorizing based on criteria we've set up instead of blind searching.

Second, these are not every blog, but mostly the blogs we've spent the past year searching out to help me put together the Blogwatch column every day. Arguably, they are the best finance and stock blogs out there but, more importantly, it’s a constantly changing list. If you think I'm missing any blogs for indexing, please send them to me.

Most importantly, we hope it makes making an investment decision easier. All feedback welcome on this new feature.

James Altucher

By:mock portfolio

Date: 02/28/07

This is great. I've actually wanted a list like this for a long, long time.

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