Google Blog Search Review

Google Blog Search not the Ultimate Blog Search tool

I have mixed feelings about the new Google Blog Search!

It's very fast, and I'm hoping it will prove itself to be great at returning great relevant results. Google excels at relevant results, and that's the default for Google Blog Search! In contrast, the Technorati and Feedster search engines default to returning results by date.

Today, quite simply you need to use more than one search engine as they all return differing results. Google Blog Search for example returned one reference to my blog all the other's missed - no surprise. Also Google Blog Search doesn't return all the results other Engines do.

Google Blog Search is an RSS and Atom feed search engine. It DOES NOT search the text of blogs themselves. It is important to realize however that not all blogs have their entire posts in their RSS or Atom feeds. Some may have only post titles or partial text, which will limit what is found.

Also RSS and Atom feeds only contain relatively recent information - so don't expect Google Blog Search to find anything from months or years ago (see RSS and Atom Feeds Explained for a quick primer).

Summary: Google Blog Search is a good Blog search engine, but it will complement, not replace, my use of Technorati, Feedster, Blogdigger, and others.