Posted on 09/16/2005 12:47:46 PM PDT by Jim Robinson
Often, as I write my articles, I search weblogs -- the popular online journals that allow just about anyone (including me) to have a voice on the Web. Because bloggers are fairly quick in posting their thoughts, their blogs provide a good way to get a sense of the buzz on a hot topic.
Meanwhile, I also use Google (Nasdaq: GOOG - News) a lot in my research. And with Google being the king of search, wouldn't it make sense for the service to have a blog-searching function? Google apparently thinks so. It announced this week that it's releasing a beta version a service that you can try right now at blogsearch.google.com. As you'll see, it's done in classic Google style: The interface is simple (a search box and a just a couple of buttons), and the search results are lightning fast.
Google's blog service allows for searches based on relevance and date. Of course, Google has not disclosed the basis of its relevancy system -- it's a trade secret. But that's fine. I prefer using the date as the basis of a blog search, anyway, since I'm mostly interested in the latest thoughts and ideas on a given topic.
There are advanced search features as well. For example, you can search based on date ranges, language, authors, and blog titles. Another cool feature is that you can set up a feed based on your blog-search criteria. Suppose you want to see the latest blog posts on, say, Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT - News). Google will send updates to the RSS or Atom reader you use to collect content.
(Excerpt) Read more at biz.yahoo.com ...
The next 8 or 9 had leftie blogs that were all bad mouthing Free Republic.
Coincidence?
Heh, heh.
There's one site(I won't mention) that devotes a section to laughing at certain members of FreeRepublic... some of the stuff is pretty funny.
and getting worse. as great as google is, you really need a hoe when you go searching around there
Just so long as they get the blogs out of the main search. Google's betting pretty useless lately with 90% of search results turning out to be some blog ruled by l33t speak dufuses.
Right of center blogs need not apply.
Jeez---there is alot of hate out there.....
I take all the hate sites as a complement. Like Rush said, the louder the left shrieks, the better the right is doing. Hey lefty lurkers, check out my tagline....
Thanks for the link!
When you're the best it brings out a lot of contempt.
If the results are as biased as Google News, I'll use another search tool.
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