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Search Engine of Blogland

Weblogs.com and blo.gs have been center of the blogworld that most of the weblogs would ping them upon a new entry posted or updated. With the ping-centered list, and RSS auto-discovery, the blogland are ready for RSS specified indexing and search engine.

So did Google ready for it? Would there a new tab “RSS” added to the existing search tab in google? Or a “rss:xxxx” searching syntax enhanced in web searching? What made a difference to generally search on Google with searching in Blogland? Think about this: you have just watched the Champions League final of Juventus v.s. AC Milan. Feeling excited and want to talk about it, and you ain’t member of any forum/community, what could you do? Go search on blogs! Find someone who blog about it and some blog with the comment system. That’s the value of a blog-centered searching system, it’s about ordinary people. You got to wonder what ordinary people think about an event after you read or tired of the major news media (well, news.google.com ain’t human at all)…

What’s the choice we have of RSS search engine?

• Scott’s famous Feedster (previously named Roogle). Search on RSS search engine on google would bring you to it most of the times
• rssSearch, as the name said, a RSS search engine
• Daypop Search you could specifically search only for weblogs. Though most people may use Daypop as an index for top news/stories in blogland.
• Similar to Daypop, Popdex got a search feature too, and allowing to search only for blogs, or even to get citation.
• find.fyuze.com, the other search engine for news feed, it’s a bit slow though