Google's Blog Search

markpapadakis writes "Google BlogSearch beta is out. Clean UI, fast responses, not yet such a great index, but it is getting there. That's what you should find in the much-awaited new Google service. Some say Technorati and friends have been having nightmares about this very day."

Well, it does work.

[Willeh]

A search for "Angst" gives me 144,844 hits. Thanks, Google Blogsearch!

It will not be long

[SLASHAttitude]

Google or M$ will more then likely just buy Technorati.

Whoa, and it's not a beta!!

[Anonymous Coward]

... OK, just kidding ;-)

Excellent

[CleverNickedName]

It does seem to give an excellent insight into the blog communities.

Search for: "interesting and well constructed points of view" [google.com]
--- 0 Results found

Search for: "whining" [google.com]
--- 99,051 Results found

Re:Removed from standard Google search?

[aussie_a]

I'd rather get back to being able to search for useful information without having to wade through ten million "mi pet hampstre had teh babys!!!11!!1!" links.

I guess it depends on what your searching for as to how many pet hampster blog posts you'll get. I personally have never had a pet hampster blog post in my search results.

Keysearch

[WebfishUK]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, but when will they do something really useful like keysearch. I never loose my blog, but I'm forever misplacing my keys!

Re:Removed from standard Google search?

[JoeBar]

I think we all know what he was searching for when that came up..

Hey is the GP Richard Gere!??!

Re:For the love of $DEITY

[Threni]

> From a webmaster perspective it's not as easy as you would think to keep sites > (such as blogs) out of google's index

"Report this blog" link?

Well, that explains things.

[RamonetB]

"Sane"
130,249 results.

"Insane"
482,040 results.

There's a research paper in here somewhere, I know it!

Re:Well, it does work.

[porkThreeWays]

254,761 results for "emo" ;)

Re:Well, it does work.

[databyss]

There is something wrong when "OMGWTFBBQLOL" gives me results.... 41 to be exact

Yey another beta from Google. I'm so unimpressed

[elrous0]

Well, they're certainly good at STARTING these ambitious projects. Will they ever actually FINISH one?

-Eric (who has been using "Google Groups Beta" for 4 years now)

Re:Well, it does work.

[gehel]

Wow, I almost read the result was 42, which would explain a lot ...
I still dont know the great question, and it doesnt seem that Google will help me to find it ...

Re:Excellent

[sketerpot]

Search for: "Sturgeon's law"
--- 240 Results found.

Hint hint.

hairloss.info--yeah right!

[rjnagle]

I searched for my alias/weblog idiotprogrammer.

Number one search result is hairlossworld.info

Way to go google!

wow

[hyperstation]

it's like indexing a litter box, turd by turd.

Re:comics are blogs now?

[Angst Badger]

Your comic -- which is fucking hilarious, BTW -- would have completely escaped my attention if you had not bitched about its categorization as a blog on Slashdot. There are two reasons for this:

1. I am reasonably certain, even if I lived to be a hundred years old, I would never have typed "dinosaur search" into Google.

2. I am equally certain that I will never use a blog-specific search tool. If I want to search blogs, I'll just use the main Google interface with a search key like "noise -signal".

The lesson to learn here, of course, is to forget about your Google search ranking and engage in shameless plugging on Slashdot.

Re:For the love of $DEITY

[Spolster]

If you wanted to know whether or not your neighborhood flooded, you had to look a little futher.
Like out the window?

Re:Well, it does work.

[joshdick]

Flying Spaghetti Monster yields 4,999 hits. All hail His Noodleness.

Re:For the love of $DEITY

[the_xaqster]

Congratulations. In just 3 posts slashdot has started a trend that will make any legitimate information on java multithreading impossibe to find amidst the "zomg!! java multithreading !11!!!1 LOLOLOLZZ!!111! " comedy posts we are going to have for the next 14 months...

What other search terms would you like to see trashed? Answers on a postcard (or the back of a stuck down envelope) to the ususal address please.

Re:comics are blogs now?

[potaz]

Hah, thanks man! But, I believe I'm also the top hit for "robot erotica", so perhaps there was still hope!

Re:Well, it does work.

[RTSKABJ]

I searched to confirm, and on page 2 there's already a Live Journal entry confirming it: "Where OMGWTFBBQLOL gives you 41 relevent results, and most of them are from livejournal :p" http://www.livejournal.com/users/waywardpixie/1543 72.html [livejournal.com] ALL OF THIS KNOWLEDGE AT MY FINGER TIPS!