It usually takes about 15 seconds, but may take up to a minute. Please be patient.
This is an interactive version of Google recommends. I said at the time this would make an interesting web service, and here it is. It was further inspired by Dave’s weblog neighborhood for Radio, but this version should work equally well with any kind of weblog.
Due to limitations of the Google API, only a few hundred people will be able to use this per day. If you get an error saying it was unable to query Google, that’s why. You can either wait until tomorrow, or you can help everyone by emailing me to donate your Google key until the rush is over. (I don’t believe this would violate Google’s terms.)
Update: thanks to the people who donated their keys; I’ve set up the script to load-balance them, and it should be able to handle about 1200 people per day.
Here’s my neighborhood, cached, so you can see it even if my Google queries are tapped out. (Actually, that brings up a good point: the results are both linkable and cached, so feel free to link to your results; it won’t count against my query limits.)
Update: results are now available in RSS. Append “&fl=rss” to the URL. Thanks to DJ for the idea. Mmm, REST.
Weblog neighborhood implementations
- Mark Pilgrim: Who are the people in your neighborhood? uses a combination of Google “related” queries and HTML scraping.
- DJ Adams: Exploring weblog neighborhoods with Blogdex uses Blogdex “links-to” information.
- Jim Winstead: blo.gs related blogs
- Dave Winer: Radio Weblog Neighborhood
- Blogdex Social Network explorer was one of the first weblog neighborhood tools.
