Everybody’s already written about the new Google blog search tool – I’ll give Dwight the finder’s credit, since I saw it at his place first – so it’s time I joined in. I like it a lot – it’s fast, it gives me way more results than Technorati ever seems to (when it’s not too busy to give me a result, that is), and, well, it’s Google so I figure it’ll stay around and continue to be useful. I’ve added a link to Google blog search results for this site on the sidebar under “Who Links Ya, Baby?” for future reference.
One amusing thing about this is that after the first page or so, there are some obvious spam sites in the results. Nothing that I recognize from my usual assortment of referral log spam, but at least now I can see a reason for someone to bother doing that, since those are links that may get inadvertently clicked by some unsuspecting soul. If they could add in an Exclude feature like IceRocket has, it’d well and truly be the bomb.
I’m almost surprised to see Google start off behind IceRocket & Technorati on this. I think once they get the bugs worked out it, it’ll put my Google API to good use, however.
Since Google indexes feeds and not the full html in blogs, this might be a good opportunity for bloggers to rethink their blogging objectives and perhaps publish full feeds.
Color me unimpressed, at least in what it does with my own (RSS-enabled) blog. Two days ago I posted something about our new gas cap rules, yet when I do a search for gas cap I’m not included in the first 3 pages of results.