rootring months later

Months after its launch, rootring is still evolving and growing. At the time of writing, 169 blogs have joined the ring. Far more than I ever imagined! A lot has happened since launch, so I'm using this post to go over the biggest changes and additions. Search the ArchiveThis is probably the biggest addition to the original webring idea. When a blog joins the ring, I try to include all of its historical posts, which is something most RSS feeds don't provide by default. That gave me enough data to build a search engine around the archive. It has most of the common features you would expect from a search engine. It's not perfect yet, especially when searching for partial terms, but it gets the job done. It's very easy to lose track of a good post, so hopefully this makes it easier to find one again. Only 719 cat results? We can do better Link TrackingAnother major feature is that rootring tracks when posts link to other posts from blogs in the ring. This provides some neat statistics,…