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Google Now Fortified With Blog Search
By David Utter
Expert Author
Article Date: 2005-09-14
The search engine finally has a presence dedicated to sifting through the various blogs available online.
Search Engine Watch notes the debut of Google Blog Search (beta) today. Google has been indexing blogs that publish a site feed in either RSS or Atom format. It is not going through blogs and performing full-text indexing.
The blog search has a couple of points of presence, one that looks like Google and one that has the Blogger look and feel. Google says in a FAQ that the Blogger Dashboard and the NavBars atop Blog*Spot sites will have the search available.
Each search returns the same results, conforming to the look and feel of the originating search page. Currently the index is limited to posts no older than those created in June 2005 for most blogs, but Google is working on adding older posts.
The option to subscribe to RSS or Atom feeds seen on Google News has been duplicated for Blog Search. Also, new operators for Blog Search have been made available:
• inblogtitle:
• inposttitle:
• inpostauthor:
• blogurl:
Most searches will return lists of posts pertaining to a query, but if entire blogs seems to match a query, Google notes it will return those blogs in a short list above the main search results.
About the Author:
David Utter is a staff writer for WebProNews covering technology and business. Email him here.
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