Google Blog Search : Indexing Feeds in the Blogosphere
September 14th, 2005Simply put, Blog Search is Google search technology focused on blogs and it enables you to find out what people are saying on any subject of your choice.
Google Blog Search will provide search results include all blogs and not just those published through Blogger. The Blog search is available through a Google-style interface, Blogger-style interface, the Blogger Dashboard and the Navbar on any Blogspot (blogger) blog.
Blog Search indexes blogs by their site feeds, which will be checked frequently for new content, so results for a given blog will update with new content much faster than standard web searches. Also, because of the structured data within site feeds, it is possible to find precise posts and date ranges with much greater accuracy.
Since Blog Search indexes blogs by their site feeds, they say it will only include items that have been posted since it started indexing a given blog i.e. around June 2005, or the time at which you submitted your blog for inclusion and they are still working on ways to include older posts. Read more in the detailed FAQ.
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I just found out today that Google now has its own search engine for weblogs (after someone used it, and that search appeared in my blog’s hit counter’s referral listing). Previously, to search only-weblogs, I had used Daypop. It was a good tool, that had a result page listing that was like Google’s (complete with “cache”s). If this Google Blog Search feature is good, then I wonder if Daypop will be around for much longer.
It was interesting to find, by using Google Blog Search this morning, another blogger’s entry that referenced my blog – an entry that I had never seen before. (But I may have found that through some other web tool or search engine, anyway.)
Google’s new blog search engine may have some promise, and with the “Google” name behind it, it may become popular rather soon. (How long ago was it started, by the way?)