backtype – Search blog comments from all over the web

Comments on blog posts have always been the forgotten son of web content. When you make a comment, you never know how it will be read, where it will end up, and because of spam issues, they rarely show up in search engines. Also, because of NoFollow, your links don’t matter either.

BackType, a YCombinator funded company started by Toronto’s Christopher Golda and Mike Montano is the first tool that just may solve these problems. Some have gone in this direction before, but have had technically top-heavy models.

Instead of creating a new standard, or trying to convince blog authors to make changes to their site, BackType scours the web just like other search engines and it scrapes the comments, or they pick up the comments RSS feeds, which tools like WordPress output on request.

The moment I used BackType for the first time, I had a total “aha!” moment and I knew exactly when and why I would use the service.

Chris and Mike’s first startup was iPartee, a beautiful but underused (at least in Canada) event tool. Austin Hill also interviewed them here on StartupNorth just over a month ago.

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19 responses to “backtype – Search blog comments from all over the web”

  1. Mike Montano Avatar

    Hi Jevon,

    We love hearing about users having that “aha” moment. Hopefully we can help people discover great conversations and give them more incentive to join in.

    If you have any more feedback or thoughts please let us know.

  2. Mike Montano Avatar

    Hi Jevon,

    We love hearing about users having that “aha” moment. Hopefully we can help people discover great conversations and give them more incentive to join in.

    If you have any more feedback or thoughts please let us know.

  3. […] Golda and Mike Montano have launched BackType. Jevon writes about the BackType launch on StartupNorth. And includes coverage of their previous startup, iPartee […]

  4. […] Golda and Mike Montano have launched BackType. Jevon writes about the BackType launch on StartupNorth. And includes coverage of their previous startup, iPartee […]

  5. […] pledged their summer to startup incubator Y Combinator and in three months fleshed out the app. StartupNorth posted an interview with Chris and Mike earlier in the summer. The pair previously worked on […]

  6. […] pledged their summer to startup incubator Y Combinator and in three months fleshed out the app. StartupNorth posted an interview with Chris and Mike earlier in the summer. The pair previously worked on […]

  7. […] StartupNorth: A positive review of the service. […]

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