Google's Blog Search 306
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."
For the love of $DEITY (Score:5, Insightful)
Does that mean (Score:1, Insightful)
I hate it when I search for some new electronics or something and first thing I see is 10 blogs repeating the same exact text of the press release and NO relevant info.
Oh No! (Score:1, Insightful)
What exactly is a "blog" these days? (Score:5, Insightful)
It seems that any page that is updated frequently with entries of some sort is considered a "blog". And that ends up being a vast majority of pages. Perhaps the downfall of this service is that what it is supposed to be searching is not very well defined. One cannot do exact searches when the search medium is so undefined.
Now all they need to do (Score:5, Insightful)
Then Google search will be useful again.
As far as privacy goes... (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Defined by publishing a site-feed (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:What exactly is a "blog" these days? (Score:3, Insightful)
Sure, it might be considered a blog by some, but it definitely isn't, according to Wikipedia: (although unfortunately it's in the blog category. But I personally think it isn't a blog).
It seems that any page that is updated frequently with entries of some sort is considered a "blog"
Under that definition, Wikipedia is a blog.
Perhaps the downfall of this service is that what it is supposed to be searching is not very well defined. One cannot do exact searches when the search medium is so undefined.
Perhaps the definition is "if it's found on Blog Search, it's a blog. Otherwise it isn't." Under this definition, slashdot is not a blog.
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Out of Ideas (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:For the love of $DEITY (Score:2, Insightful)
I think it could be done. Let the normal database and blog database be mutually exclusive. Tell the bloggers that they have to put a special line in their robots.txt to get into the blogging database. Once they're in, remove them from the normal web database. The sheep-like mentality of the blogging community would save us. Once a mildly famous blogger does it, the rest will follow. Or, better yet, we could just get one of those idiots to walk off a cliff...
Re:For the love of $DEITY (Score:5, Insightful)
Come to think of it, I can't really think of that many times when I've had to say "Damn, there are too many blog entries in these results". If you know how to search, you're only going to see blogs when they contain info that you might want anyway.
Re:What exactly is a "blog" these days? (Score:1, Insightful)
Regular, dated/chronological updates.. With comments on every *entry*. It's not a "I got my first period" personal blog, but it's definitely a [current events/news] blog.
Re:Works well. (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:For the love of $DEITY (Score:5, Insightful)
(A typical human fallacy; "this argument happens to result in something I agree with, therefore it must be correct", even if it's complete and utter nonsense if actually examined.)
Re:Clean UI? (Score:2, Insightful)
A good logo != a slick logo.
Take the Coca Cola logo for instance. It also looks dated. But it does the job and it's been in people's mind for several generations now. My guess is that Coca Cola won't change or try to "improve" their logo anytime soon.
Re:For the love of $DEITY (Score:4, Insightful)
Rubbish. Blogs are often full of excellent content you won't find anyplace else. Daily Kos/Instapundit (take your poison). Tech blogs: Tim Bray, Sam Ruby as well as my current favorite: Derrick Coetzee [msdn.com]. Journalists: go see Michael Yon [blogspot.com] does on his blog and wonder what a sad state journalism has come to today that none of the mainstream media can do what he does.
And oh, if by your so-very-high standards bloggers are
Re:For the love of $DEITY (Score:3, Insightful)
Maybe not, but it is the truth. People need to quit whining when they should take a little more initiative in solving the problem themselves instead of bitching about it. Quite often this attitude does not result in making friends.
Even better would be if Google added "-blog" as a search option.
I'm currently in the process of writing an add on to the Google tool bar for Mozilla that will append these blog search operators to the text box on submit. It's going slow because I'm a web guy and my programming is a little less than stellar.
great security... :rolleyes: (Score:2, Insightful)