Edgeio appears to have achieved some fundamental change. This graph shows the number of listings appearing on the site:
It appears that around the end of April, some changes have occurred that greatly impact the number of listings. There doesn't seem to be any real indications of what this might be on the Edgeio Blog, though there is a great post there regarding Google's Microsoft-like tactics in owning representational spaces wrt their GData formats.
Interestingly, the number of web sites being tracked (as indicated on the front page) hasn't changed since the end of March, so the sudden increase can only be accounted for by other channels of listings information. In a comment on an earlier post, Keith Teare gave some indication of how this works:
edgeio was architected for any RSS enabled publisher to upload their catalog automatically. And for updates to be uploaded in real time. We expect that alongside bloggers, ther will be many larger publishers who choose to do that.
Comments