Comments crawling
February 17th, 2006
One of the things we failed to communicate effectively is that cocomment does not (yet) crawl comments. So comments appear as follow ups in Your Conversations ONLY if they have been made using cocomment.
We are working on bringing you more but there are some issues (mostly identity related) so we will need a little bit of time here. If you have ideas on the matter you are welcome.
Stay tuned, we just hired a former search engine specialist to help us with the task.
PS: I swear I choosed the blog post for the above screenshot randomly. Promise 
RSS feed
February 17th, 2006 at 16:28
Does this apply to our RSS feed as well? I could’ve sworn that I’ve been getting all subsequent responses at comment pages I am tracking, but maybe I’m wrong. My RSS feed is how I prefer keeping track of my pages, anyway, which is the entire reason I signed up as a tester; I barely ever go to my centralized CoComments account page, to tell you the truth, not when I can have all relevant comments simply delivered to my news reader instead.
February 17th, 2006 at 21:01
Yes, it applies to RSS Feeds as well, as we use the same data there. Sorry about that.
But we’d like to change that, the details are not yet clear, though.
February 18th, 2006 at 12:22
Just wondering if you’re looking at extracting comments from the page itself, from comment feeds, or both? It would certainly be easier to extract the data from comment feeds if such exist (which they do for WordPress and can for Blogger, not sure about the others)
February 19th, 2006 at 01:27
We are looking for both methods right now. It’s not clear what we will implement, though. There are still quite a lot of issues to be resolved, apart from just getting the data in the first place.
February 19th, 2006 at 11:22
[…] Intégrer coComment sur votre blog CoComment is great. It helps you keep track of comments you make on other blogs, and (imperfectly for the moment) notifies you of responses to your comments. You can make it easier to use by installing the GreaseMonkey script (don’t fret, it’s easy) or the Firefox extension (less useful IMHO, but why not). […]
February 19th, 2006 at 23:54
[…] Incidentally, it turns out that coComment doesn’t work at all like my recent overview suggested. As this blog post of theirs points out, they do not crawl comments. New comments from the ‘Your Conversations’ page will only appear if they are posted by other coComment users. I apologise profusely for not realising this fact, although in my defence it wasn’t made very clear. In my view, this makes the entire service much less useful. It’s handy to have a list of places I recently posted comments, but having to visit each page manually…I feel a bit cheated, really. They say they’re working on incorporating non-coComment-user responses, but if the experiences of the FeedLounge team are anything to go by, the infrastructure needed for large-scale crawling is easy to underestimate. […]
February 25th, 2006 at 20:31
I think the comments were well chosen, IMHO.
February 26th, 2006 at 09:21
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February 28th, 2006 at 01:39
[…] So, at the moment there is a limitation in exhaustivity, but they are working on this Comment Crawling issue…co.mments is ahead in this respect. […]