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."
So will now..... (Score:4, Interesting)
PS: Not referring to singapore case in particular.
Re:Does that mean (Score:4, Interesting)
comics are blogs now? (Score:5, Interesting)
I think what people would want more is a way to exclude blogs from regular Google searches - is this an option?
Too late for nightmares... (Score:1, Interesting)
Speaking of which, there's been a workshop on blogs and blog search at the past couple WWW conferences. Here's some links:
http://www.blogpulse.com/www2004-workshop.html [blogpulse.com]
http://www.blogpulse.com/www2005-workshop.html [blogpulse.com]
Works well. (Score:5, Interesting)
I did a search for my hometown, London, Ontario to see who is blogging.
http://blogsearch.google.com/blogsearch?hl=en&q=l
7 out of 10 were scraper sites built for adsense.
Looks like this great new search tool will make them money in the long run.
Diary as literature (Score:1, Interesting)
There was a time when "I Love Lucy" was min driviling, mindless entertainment (or for the Lucy fans, substitute "Gilligan's Island"). Now it's an important cultural icon. Who knows if, in the fullness of time, what Suzy did last night will be a simple embarrassment or a social revelation.
What would be really nice is some AI capability in the search engine that takes info from your personal profile and uses it to construct a rating of significance according to your own values. That might even be a reason to actually have a profile.
google search extra line (Score:3, Interesting)
Top 100 Blogs - About - Developers - Blog
Nice. Didn't notice that before. Is this also new?
Re:For the love of $DEITY (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:For the love of $DEITY (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:For the love of $DEITY (Score:2, Interesting)
Is that really so difficult?
Re:For the love of $DEITY (Score:5, Interesting)
All of the big news sites were much more interested in sharing emotion than information. It took me days to find out anything about Harahan, where I live, and that's just a few minutes west of the city. And when I did, it wasn't from MSNBC, or a local news reporter. The info got out from people making cell phone calls to friends/family, and then those people posting information.
If you wanted to know what President Bush or Michael Brown was doing, you checked CNN.com. If you wanted to know whether or not your neighborhood flooded, you had to look a little futher.
Re:For the love of $DEITY (Score:3, Interesting)
today, that same search puts the U.S. Department of Commerce and the New Zealand Department of Conservation at the top.
likewise, a search for "Lawrence" had some blog at the top, and today we get Lawrence University, the Lawrence, KS newspaper, and the Lawrence Livermore laboratories.
the blogs still do show up on the front page, so clearly google's search algorithm needs more tuning -- but we are winning the battle.
bloggers are a group who openly and aggressively play games with google's site ranking algorithms in order to push their personal home pages to the front of the list for terms that people just aren't using to refer to them. it should come as no surprise that their annoying link-spamming will be countered as aggressively.
Wow (Score:1, Interesting)
viagra [google.com] 80,343 Results
yet....
I hate spam [google.com] 851 Results
Go figure
Updating indexes? (Score:5, Interesting)
One of my friends has an omg lol emo account on LiveJournal, and a few months ago, they went on an omg friends only spree, protecting almost all of their entries.
I searched for their username on Google Blog Search, and it linked their blog - unsurprising. What was surprising was that it also linked to all of the protected entries that I could think of, even those that are currently inaccessable, should you click the links to the pages.
What concerns me about this is whether Google will ever clean its index of these results...admittedly, it will be entertaining if they do not, but when you or someone you care about does something stupid, like accidentally posting that e-mail that their boss sent around with the contact information intact publicly, then realizes their mistake and removes it, how long after that will Google retain the data?