Google Unveils Blog Search
Everything as of late has been Google, Google, and Google, and this week on the Karl Ribas.com Blog will be no different. Google, a few days back, launched (in Beta of course) their long awaited blog search feature. This feature, deemed to go head-to-head with Yahoo!'s search technology, will give Google a little bit of an advantage as both compete in the booming blog market.
Google's new blog search feature is designed to not only find and index listings within it's own Blogger.com network, but actually go one step further and search blogs that publish feeds via RSS or Atom. As with all other Google's search properties, their spiders will no doubt be checking these feeds frequently for new content, which is definitely a great thing for blog readers like me.
What is it with blogs that attract people like us? Well, for me personally it's the straight to the point, no-room for bullshit commentary. Simply put, we have numerous options on how we can get the information we want or need. I, for one, prefer to read blogs, as opposed to online-newspapers, forums, message boards, or even email-newsletters, to get my dose of search engine marketing related information.
Blogs, pending on the author, are written in a casual, conversation-like way and deliver news and updates, but at the same can offer you the author's personal opinion. Where as online-newspapers or forums have to uphold a certain professional image and can only offer news and positive feedback. If something sucks... I want to know it sucks.
Anyway, going back to Google's blog search, the feature can be accessed at a couple of different places. If you interested in finding more blogs like mine, or those not related to search engine marketing check out search.blogger.com. In addition, miniature versions of the blog search engine have been added to the main Blogger.com Dashboard. Enjoy!
Google's new blog search feature is designed to not only find and index listings within it's own Blogger.com network, but actually go one step further and search blogs that publish feeds via RSS or Atom. As with all other Google's search properties, their spiders will no doubt be checking these feeds frequently for new content, which is definitely a great thing for blog readers like me.
What is it with blogs that attract people like us? Well, for me personally it's the straight to the point, no-room for bullshit commentary. Simply put, we have numerous options on how we can get the information we want or need. I, for one, prefer to read blogs, as opposed to online-newspapers, forums, message boards, or even email-newsletters, to get my dose of search engine marketing related information.
Blogs, pending on the author, are written in a casual, conversation-like way and deliver news and updates, but at the same can offer you the author's personal opinion. Where as online-newspapers or forums have to uphold a certain professional image and can only offer news and positive feedback. If something sucks... I want to know it sucks.
Anyway, going back to Google's blog search, the feature can be accessed at a couple of different places. If you interested in finding more blogs like mine, or those not related to search engine marketing check out search.blogger.com. In addition, miniature versions of the blog search engine have been added to the main Blogger.com Dashboard. Enjoy!
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posted by Karl Ribas Friday, September 16, 2005 Read Comments (0) | Post a Comment | Subscribe  
 
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