Blog before you Think!

You've seen it before, and you'll see it again: Google's Blog Search.


First impressions:

* it's Google, so it's fast.

* Besides the one mentioned above, the Blog Search also comes in a Blogger flavor.

* the References feature for finding out which other sites link to a page (link:bla.bla) - which is somehow broken in Google - seems to work better here.

* you can subscribe to Atom or RSS feeds for your searches

* (and you need to provide an Atom or RSS feed, otherwise your blog won't be picked up)

* if you want to check which entries of your blog have been picked up by Blog Search yet (this actually is a good indicator for finding out when Google decided to roll Blog Search, they seem to have started scanning the feeds on April 14th), just search for blogurl:your.blog.url

* the Advanced Blog Search gives you fine grained control on what to search (you can restrict the search to a period of time or a specific language amongst others).


Nice. But I'm still scratching my head, why they didn't throw in a search for tags, though.


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