Some time over the weekend Google put links to Google Blog Search on the front page of Google News and at the end of each news search results page. This minor change is just the kind of integration of services the company has said it was going to focus on; something Sergey Brin might call a feature not a product. It’s liable to increase the market size for the whole blogosphere, though not as much as it could have if the link had been added to even the second tier list of services on the front page of Google. I think Google Blog Search is a very good service and I’m glad that more people will now be using it.
Remember when Google demoted Froogle from the top tier of the front page and replaced it with a link to Google Video? Traffic to the video site went way up. The underloved Google Blog Search is likely to see substantial growth as well - it turned one year old in mid-September and this could be its coming of age.
Even prior to this month’s launch of Google’s own ping server, I’ve long thought that Google Blog Search is one of the best options available. Unless I want to filter sources by number of inbound links, or peruse an index of blogs (both Technorati’s strong points) then Google Blogsearch is my preferred choice. I’ve found anecdotaly that it finds new blog posts faster than other blog search engines and some very rough research we did found that to be true.
Steve Rubel noticed the same thing tonight and pointed out that Google Blogsearch has been integrated with Google Finance for some time. It’s very strange that when the new Google Reader came out this month, blog search was not included in that service. Also yet to make an appearance: a blog about Google Blog Search (there are so many other Google Blogs, I’d really like to read that one if it existed) and ads run against blog search results. Surely both of those are coming and it’s only a matter of time.
Yahoo! on the other hand removed their blog search functionality and results from Yahoo! News in August. There was almost no public discussion of the move at all but the company says that blog search will return to Yahoo! once it works better.
As far as the other big guys go, Ask has a nice blog search feature that includes related RSS feeds along side the search results and splog filtering using Bloglines; Live.com has a feed search included in its “more” section but no separate blog search. Which of them will really make good use of blog search first? It could very well be Google.
Now that is really interesting. The link isn’t terribly prominent though and when I read this post I was under the impression a blog search would be one of the main search buttons. In any event, I think it is a good decision that should further bring blogs into the mainstream consciousness as a source of news and information.
google’s blog search is still text based…a new “paradigm” in blog search is http://www.blogsaic.com, where a blog is profiled with an avitar/tile image, instead of a text description…its an experiment…but the hope is that bloggers will post images that convey the tone of their blog. A guy in a suit for a trading blog, a girl in parachute for skydiving a dog with googles on for a pet blog…
Sorry to ask this here, but I don’t know where one would ask it, except maybe Yahoo Answers: are there special sites to chat/meet with software developers/programmers? I don’t know the first thing about software develpment, but I’ve had some ideas for sites, and I would like to ask developers about feasibility, originality, and other issues. And I would like to listen in to their chats as well. Heaven forbid, I might learn something!
try techrepublic.com
It’s obviously an improvement from having the Blog Search button two clicks away but it would be better to see Blogs incorpated intot he News page as an actual results sector, like Entertainment, and Most Popular.
It seemed to take a while for Google’s Blog Search to catch up with other quality blog search facilities, but now the Search Results Pages it returns are dominated by spammy sites - especially if you order your results by date. It is a pity we have to surrender complete relevance when choosing the date order.
In response to #5:
I have seen some blogs incorporated into “News.” For example, if you search for Googe News stories from GigaOM.com, a tech blog, you will find some results:
http://news.google.com/news?hl.....GigaOM.com
I do not know what the criteria for a blog to be incorporated as News though.
Blog searches are all but useless due to adsense. What do I mean? I mean that because of Adsense, there are thousands of spam-blogs out there cluttering the landscape. What do these spam blogs do? They automatically scrape news and press releases to draw visitors to their bog sites only to send them somewhere else via Adsense so they can make their $$ on it. These guys are smarter then the ones who purchase traffic off of google via adwords after all, they’re traffic is free. The downside is that we have literally thousands (I’ve tracked 21,300+ spam blogs) out there making it more difficult to find relevant information on the net. Can google do something about it? Sure, but why? They’d be cutting their own throat in terms of billions of dollars in revenue. I love Google, but Adsense is singlehandedly ruining the internet.
Ill be keeping an eye on the referrers to my blog to see if i get an increase from google blogsearch.
I’ve seen a large upswing on the number of referrers from Google in Analytics lately. As in my traffic has doubled (wasn’t huge to begin with) and the number one referrer is Google. I’ve no idea if it’s Google Blogsearch or News or just happened to be a popular search subject.
I wouldn’t of thought News, but it’s interesting to note it (blogs related to subject) gets added.
While reading this article I want to invite users for a discussion in my blog
Can google get Gods mind?
This was one argument in 2004.I want to validate this argument with diverse opionions by comparing the current trends of google like the one which is described in the post above
http://ragusivanmalai.blogspot.....-mind.html
Come on Google users
I found few days ago that I had my new posts in Google News. Weird, I asked them a year ago if I could appear in it but they said no as I my site was more a blog than a news website.
Google is proving a great understudy to Microsoft. Slow and steady wins the race. Version 1.0 of Google’s many products may be flawed but they keep circling back and improving both features and products, as well as stitching them together. The integration of Google Blog Search is a case in point.
There must be some kind of fault in Google’s blog search algorithm. Or otherwise, Google news is just too highly ranked in the Blog statistics.
I am very happy that Google is seeing the value in stopping break-neck development and taking some time to refine and integrate their products.
Google BlogSearch rendered in a rich client format.
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