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# Sphere ...
- URL: https://www.lorcandempsey.net/sphere/
- Published: 2006-09-09T21:44:44.000Z
- Updated: 2020-10-28T20:52:36.000Z
- Author: Lorcan Dempsey
- Tags: Social, Systems

I know some folks who have some elaborate arrangements set up for tracking stuff across a variety of blog search engines. And catch lots of interesting things. Most folks I know probably never use any of them.  
As Steve Lawson [points out](https://library.coloradocollege.edu/steve/archives/2006/02/speak%5Fof%5Fthe%5Fde.html?ref=lorcandempsey.net) various folks have ego-feeds to allow them track mentions of theirs truly (I am sure he will see this in his own ego-feed ;-).  
I have a variety of watchlists and equivalents set up. Some relate to aspects of work (not many), some to other interests (not many) and, OK, there are a few ego-feeds (not many). This last is partly out of a natural curiousity, and partly because it is a good way to track the currency and coverage of the blog search engines.  
Recently, my impressionistic judgement is that the relatively new service from Ask.com/Bloglines gives the best overall results, ahead of blogsearch.google and Technorati or Feedster. These are the services I tend to look at.  
However, I have just come across [www.sphere.com](https://www.sphere.com/?ref=lorcandempsey.net) which appears quite nice, and I will try it for a while. Try a [search](https://www.sphere.com/search?q=lorcan+dempsey&sortby=date&lang=en&datedrop=7&startdate=&enddate=&histdays=120&allfrom=&ref=lorcandempsey.net), and it gives you the option to ripple it through to a [search](https://www.sphere.com/related-media?q=%22lorcan+dempsey%22&sortby=date&lang=en&datedrop=7&ref=lorcandempsey.net) of books/photos/podcasts (apparently based on Yahoo! and Amazon).  
I will try this for a while and see how it does.  
I came across it as it is used by the interesting FireFox extension [BumbleSearch](https://www.bumblesearch.com/bsearch/home/?ref=lorcandempsey.net).