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Searching the Internet 006: Blog Searching

Episode 006 of Searching the Internet covers some search engines news and then concentrates on blog searches. The sites covered include Google, Yahoo, Ask, Gigablast as well as IceRocket, Clusty, Technorati, Sphere, Blogpulse, and Blogdigger.

00:00 Intro

Search Engine News
01:33 Google updates Macintosh software
02:09 Google Government Search
02:41 Google Sync Tools
03:34 Google Indexing Spam
03:34 Google words censored in China
05:03 Google Book Search for Shakespeare
06:02 Ask does blog search
06:44 Ask official search engine for “Treasure Hunters”
07:10 Ask blocking some searches
08:33 Yahoo Answers now international

Major Blog Search Engines
11:16 Google Blog Search
13:17 Yahoo Blog Search
14:35 Minezone’s Yahoo Blog Search Bookmarklet
15:10 Ask Blog Search
19:16 Gigablast Blog Search

Established Blog Search Engines
21:12 IceRocket Blog Search
24:12 Clusty Blog Search
26:06 Technorati Blog Search

New Blog Search Engines
30:35 Sphere Blog Search
33:26 Blogpulse Blog Search
35:42 Blogdigger Blog Search

37:14 Wrapup

Blog Search Results for “Vioxx”
Site Results Freshness First Spam Grade
Google 325,312 4 h 30 A-
Yahoo 89 7.5 h 14 C
Ask 30,700 1 h 19 B+
Gigablast 41 Dec 2005 none D
IceRocket 51,301 1 h 20 A
Clusty 248 49 min 13 B
Technorati 14,584 39 min 9 B
Sphere 38,359* 42 min 8 B
Blogpulse 8,348 1 day 19 B
Blogdigger 5,691 2 h 20 C


* = Sphere only goes back 4 months currently.
Search was performed on each search engine on June 26, 2006.

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2 Responses to “Searching the Internet 006: Blog Searching”

  1. V Sivakumar’s weblog » Blog Search Engines Says:
    July 9th, 2006 at 12:51 pm

    […] There is an interesting Podcast comparing several Blog Search Engines.  The Author compares most of the major, established and emerging Blog Search Engines. Also, searches for the word “Viozxx”, drafts a comparison table based on the number of results; freshness of the result; first spam result number and ranks them. […]

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