Happy birthday to my beloved country for your 60 birthday. May you live forever.

Israel that was built from the ashes of the german gas chambers just 60 years ago is a miracle by all means. A small group of individuals, hurt and lonely, have come together and started the most successful startup in human history. Coming to a dry and harsh land with nothing but a deep ambition to build a home was not easy. People who have just lost all their roots, family, mothers, fathers, sisters and brothers became one to build a warm home for Jewish man and women from all over the world.

I am personally deeply thankful for all the blood, sweat and tears being poured here by all the brave souls to make sure I can live and build a family very conveniently nowadays.

Today, 60 years later, Israel, takes pride of being an excellent place to live in for millions of people. Jews, Muslims and Christian man and women live and prosper together in the Promised Land. I know peace is yet to come and conflicts do exist, things that happen in every good family. I know we are blame of some of it and others have blame too. I know we have poverty, lack of justice and corruption and we have the responsibility to fix this. Still none of this can diminish the big pride I take of being an Israeli.

The founding fathers and mothers are almost no longer with us today and we the young generation has the responsibility to make sure the torch is being passed and the same miracle continues during our time. I have to admit we have an easier job.

Long live Israel!
Dudu

Hi All,

Thanks to our recent upgrade we now offer internationalized search, which means we support search in all languages as well much more speed and freshness of blogs within our index.

Enjoy,

Dudu

Hi All,

During the next two weeks you will notice slowdowns or lack of service and that is due to a server upgrade we are running. We have enjoyed a surge in traffic and to provide better service we are investing in our infrastructure.

Thanks,

Dudu

Hi All,

We have added a sponsorship plan on Strategicboard. For more details go to our sponsors page.

Dudu

Hi All,

In recent months we have done few upgrades to our servers farm, which paid out greatly. Currently we track almost 1.5M quality blogs and we add every week around 4M new posts, which is in a very simple math: 500K posts a day, 24K posts an hour etc…

We have seen a nice surge in traffic (see below Alexa graph) and more and more returning visitors.

Dudu

Hi All and Happy Holidays!

2007 was an excellent year for me personally and for Aggreg as well. During 2007 we have reached the following achievements:

- We have launched Aggreg corporate web site
- Strategicboard, our blog search engine, reached a steady 20K daily unique visitors and the trend is going up. Most of our traffic comes from the US and the rest spreads across the globe evenly.

- Strategicboard has received a big infrastructure infusion and now we have more then 20 servers handling indexing and serving user requests. We have gone from 50K to >700K blogs that we cover after eliminating more then a million spam blogs.

- King Ping, our central ping service that we acquired during 2007, has been relaunched and now handles around 10K daily unique and real pings (we verify that there is a real update within pinged blogs before we update our more then 50 search engines on the list). Our automatic blogging feature has been a huge success and we have several hundred thousands of bloggers who opted for the service, where we check once in a while the blogs to see whether there is a change and if we detect one then we go and do the ping automatically.

- TrendMapper, the social search trending service was also acquired during 2007 and I have to say although we had plans to relaunch it this year we didn’t succeed to do so yet. We are going through a major change within TrendMapper both in terms of scalability and user experience and we do expect to have the new version up and running until february 2008.

That was all for 2007 and our plans for 2008 include first the relaunch of TrendMapper which holds many cool features behind it and of course the launch of our vertical blog search engines W2Apps, CarsMonitor, GoogMS and Middleastern. Most important for us is providing good quality service to our users and needless to say infrastructure will stay a hot topic for 2008 as well.

Anyway, I would like to thank all our users and supporters and we hope 2008 will be no less interesting then 2007.
Dudu

Hi All,

We have added a top 100 list of bloggers listed on Strategicboard based on our proprietary blog ranking algorithm. Within our algorithm we take into account the blog authority, hub and refresh level.

Dudu

Hi All,

In the next two weeks we are going to upgrade our online operation (which is different than our backend indexing farm, which has been upgraded lately) to support our growth and provide higher response time for searches. There might be some shutdowns but we will do our best to minimize downtime.

Dudu

Hi All,

During the last two weeks we have worked hard to clear our index from spam blogs and duplicates and after removing around 250K feeds that were not blogs from our 1 million feeds index we can proudly say our search results look good. We have made sure we don’t have search engines feeds, aggregators feeds, spammers and duplicate feeds of the same blogs.

Dudu

Hi All,

We have now made sure every search result can be grabbed as an RSS feed, blog reading list in an OPML format or clear mobile edition that can be viewed easily in a mobile phone. Our OPML list is changing dynamically based on the blogs who appear top ranked for each search and can be used as an excellent tool for identifying new bloggers related to a specific subject.

Dudu