PubSub

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PubSub was an Internet search engine for searching blogs.

The site, founded in 2002 by Bob Wyman and Salim Ismail, operated by storing a user's search term, making it a subscription, and checking it against posts on blogs which ping the search engine. When a new match was found, the user was notified, even if it occurred months after the initial search. This feature led PubSub to call itself a matching engine.

Results could be read on the service's website or on an optional sidebar, available for both Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox, or via RSS.

[edit] Financial trouble

PubSub got into something of a problem as noted in this blog entry by Bob Wyman and now appears to be dead.

Our days are numbered. A recent attempt to execute a merger has been blocked and we've been blocked from raising equity financing that would allow us to continue to pay salaries and pay off our $3 million in debt. Thus, our "doors" will close soon if we can't find someone to pull us out of the current situation. Persons with fast access to cash and a desire for some of the industry's best technology are advised to contact us rapidly...

As of 15/1/2007 the PubSub website is offline.