Moreover Technologies – Company Blog

Some good news today – our spam-free index of blogs, a.k.a “The Moreover White List”,  just hit a royal new high of 254,351 blogs. That’s a great increase since our previous post announcing ‘only’ one hundred thousand blogs back in October.

We’ve been adding blogs by platform, here’s a summary of the latest additions:

LiveJournal: 66,481 blogs 
HauteFort: 2,424 blogs 
FeedCreator: 2,367 blogs 
Community Server: 2,120 blogs  
Canal Blog: 15,624 blogs
b2evolution: 1,544 blogs 
Squarespace:  1,370  blogs 
Liberated Syndication: 72 blogs

And here’s a screenshot with the hard stat proof – a computer can’t lie after all:

Here’s a challenge (and quite beyond yours truly):  we have 600 news feeds in our list.  All of these feeds can be cross-referenced, stacked, or blocked from each other. 

For instance, you can combine feed A and feed B to make feed C.  Or, you can block feed B from feed A and make a new feed D.  Finally the feeds can be cross-referenced: articles that appear in feed A and feed B create new feed E.  You can use those 3 options in combination, and with as many feeds as you like, for example you can cross reference 10 feeds with another 10 feeds, from which you block another 5.

So the challenge is this (and ignoring the fact that not all feed combinations will make for sensible results): 

How many possible feed combinations can you make? Presumably there is a limit. Initially I thought 600-squared (360,000), but that doesn’t seem right, it must be more?

Unfortunately no prize for the brave and brilliant soul who can answer this question!  Though expect a bag of respect and your number may well make it into the Moreover “we have THIS many feeds” marketing blurb (saved for posterity ever after).