Google blog search pinging service

Google has launched the Google Search Pinging Service, which is a way for individual bloggers and blog platform to inform Google of content changes. These updates are then published and shared with other search engines to allow them to discover the changes to your weblogs.

Additionally, Google Blog Search will add submitted weblogs to the list of blogs it needs to crawl and index.

To use this service, either add http://blogsearch.google.com/ping/RPC2 to the list of your hosts to ping, or ping it manually.

b5media gets $2 million funding

b5media has just closed a deal with two Canadian VC companis (Brightspark and JL Albright) for a round of financing. Darren Rowse, the VP of Training and Development at b5media, blogged that this injection of investment will allow them to ramp up what they’re able to do an extra few notches.

As part of the funding, he will be transitioning many of his blogs into others writing. ProBlogger.net will remain to be maintained personally by him.

Ice Rockets adds free blog stats service

Ice Rocket, a weblog search engine, has added a free stats service for bloggers called BlogTracker. Ice Rocket will compare the traffic ranking of your blog to all others that use the statistics package. [Via]