Technorati has announced their Keyword Search (Beta). Then BlogStreet launched a Blog post search. My last survey of search engine in Blogland listed 5 blog searching services. It’s just not enough, the creative ball can’t resist to keep rolling over on blogosphere.
Out of the above mentioned new searching services, I have missed out two existed RSS search engines: Blogdigger and Waypath. Waypath is cool, highly recommended! It gives better relevant search result than others (in my opinion).
And yeah, just found out that Dave Winer got a Weblog Search too. It’s powered by Google, which, simply said, sending the query to Google, getting the result, massaging, fetch the exact blog posts. Good idea.
What’s the difference between these search engine with traditional search engine like Google or Alltheweb? Some of these blog search engine didn’t spider webpage, instead, they fetch RSS and store them. The key point is they treat a blog post as single unit, traditional search engine would a file as a unit.
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Hey, I like Waypath too! :)
Some add-on bits: Waypath doesn't just do RSS feeds. We crawl the HTML, which gives us a broader reach. We've only covered about 1/3 the sites that the largest census (http://www.blogcensus.net) has found so far, but we're indexing like crazy.
Also, Winer's search uses Google, but only lets you search Scripting News--a very focused application (to be tactful).
Finally, I've recently learned that BlogMatrix has keyword search for weblogs, too.
posted 03:44 AM on June 14, 2003 · comment by Steve · #
Steve, thanks for clarification :-). And yeah, I missed out BlogMatrix (http://www.blogmatrix.com) too.
I noticed your recent effort to group metablog initiater to consolidate the duplicate "energy". Good work! :)