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Google launches Blog Search
by Jordan Running Sep 14th 2005 at 2:34AM
Search guru John Battelle is reporting that Google is about to release a dedicated blog search engine. It will come in two flavors, one for searching Blogger blogs and the other for blogs at large. Battelle says the service will be arriving at blogsearch.google.com very shortly, but if you're itching for more information you can read the official FAQ, which describes some interesting features: Firstly, Blog Search seems to crawl RSS and Atom feeds and search results point to individual posts, but if entire blogs match your query they'll appear in a list at the top. Secondly, in addition to the familiar site:, link:, and intitle: operators, Google's blog search also adds inblogtitle:, inposttitle:, inpostauthor:, and blogurl:. Lastly, but perhaps most interestingly, you'll be able to subscribe to Atom feeds for your favorite vanity searches.
Update: Google Blog Search is now live.
Via The Unofficial Google Weblog.
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Barb Dybwad said 4:41PM on 10-07-2005
The language feature is also cool -- you can itemize an Advanced Search by any of 35 different languages (default is to show all). Some of the "related blogs" results are a little bit wonky, though -- they seem to be prioritizing terms in blog titles really heavily, which a) isn't necessarily always relevant and b) is just begging to be spammed.
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