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Google's Blog Search

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the only-a-matter-of-time dept.

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."

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  1. Well, it does work. by Willeh · · Score: 5, Funny

    A search for "Angst" gives me 144,844 hits. Thanks, Google Blogsearch!

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    1. Re:Well, it does work. by porkThreeWays · · Score: 3, Funny

      254,761 results for "emo" ;)

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    2. Re:Well, it does work. by databyss · · Score: 5, Funny

      There is something wrong when "OMGWTFBBQLOL" gives me results.... 41 to be exact

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    3. Re:Well, it does work. by gehel · · Score: 3, Funny

      Wow, I almost read the result was 42, which would explain a lot ...
      I still dont know the great question, and it doesnt seem that Google will help me to find it ...

    4. Re:Well, it does work. by joshdick · · Score: 2, Funny

      Flying Spaghetti Monster yields 4,999 hits. All hail His Noodleness.

    5. Re:Well, it does work. by RTSKABJ · · Score: 2, Funny

      I searched to confirm, and on page 2 there's already a Live Journal entry confirming it: "Where OMGWTFBBQLOL gives you 41 relevent results, and most of them are from livejournal :p" http://www.livejournal.com/users/waywardpixie/1543 72.html ALL OF THIS KNOWLEDGE AT MY FINGER TIPS!

  2. It will not be long by SLASHAttitude · · Score: 2, Funny

    Google or M$ will more then likely just buy Technorati.

  3. Whoa, and it's not a beta!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    ... OK, just kidding ;-)

  4. Excellent by CleverNickedName · · Score: 5, Funny

    It does seem to give an excellent insight into the blog communities.

    Search for: "interesting and well constructed points of view"
    --- 0 Results found

    Search for: "whining"
    --- 99,051 Results found

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    1. Re:Excellent by sketerpot · · Score: 2, Funny
      Search for: "Sturgeon's law"
      --- 240 Results found.

      Hint hint.

  5. Re:Removed from standard Google search? by aussie_a · · Score: 3, Funny

    I'd rather get back to being able to search for useful information without having to wade through ten million "mi pet hampstre had teh babys!!!11!!1!" links.

    I guess it depends on what your searching for as to how many pet hampster blog posts you'll get. I personally have never had a pet hampster blog post in my search results.

  6. Keysearch by WebfishUK · · Score: 3, Funny

    Yeah, yeah, yeah, but when will they do something really useful like keysearch. I never loose my blog, but I'm forever misplacing my keys!

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  7. Re:Removed from standard Google search? by JoeBar · · Score: 3, Funny
    I think we all know what he was searching for when that came up..

    Hey is the GP Richard Gere!??!

  8. Re:For the love of $DEITY by Threni · · Score: 5, Funny

    > From a webmaster perspective it's not as easy as you would think to keep sites > (such as blogs) out of google's index

    "Report this blog" link?

  9. Well, that explains things. by RamonetB · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Sane"
    130,249 results.

    "Insane"
    482,040 results.

    There's a research paper in here somewhere, I know it!

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  10. Yey another beta from Google. I'm so unimpressed by elrous0 · · Score: 2, Funny
    Well, they're certainly good at STARTING these ambitious projects. Will they ever actually FINISH one?

    -Eric (who has been using "Google Groups Beta" for 4 years now)

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  11. hairloss.info--yeah right! by rjnagle · · Score: 2, Funny

    I searched for my alias/weblog idiotprogrammer.

    Number one search result is hairlossworld.info

    Way to go google!

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  12. wow by hyperstation · · Score: 5, Funny

    it's like indexing a litter box, turd by turd.

  13. Re:comics are blogs now? by Angst+Badger · · Score: 3, Funny

    Your comic -- which is fucking hilarious, BTW -- would have completely escaped my attention if you had not bitched about its categorization as a blog on Slashdot. There are two reasons for this:

    1. I am reasonably certain, even if I lived to be a hundred years old, I would never have typed "dinosaur search" into Google.

    2. I am equally certain that I will never use a blog-specific search tool. If I want to search blogs, I'll just use the main Google interface with a search key like "noise -signal".

    The lesson to learn here, of course, is to forget about your Google search ranking and engage in shameless plugging on Slashdot.

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  14. Re:For the love of $DEITY by Spolster · · Score: 2, Funny

    If you wanted to know whether or not your neighborhood flooded, you had to look a little futher.
    Like out the window?

  15. Re:For the love of $DEITY by the_xaqster · · Score: 2, Funny

    Congratulations. In just 3 posts slashdot has started a trend that will make any legitimate information on java multithreading impossibe to find amidst the "zomg!! java multithreading !11!!!1 LOLOLOLZZ!!111! " comedy posts we are going to have for the next 14 months...

    What other search terms would you like to see trashed? Answers on a postcard (or the back of a stuck down envelope) to the ususal address please.

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  16. Re:comics are blogs now? by potaz · · Score: 2, Funny

    Hah, thanks man! But, I believe I'm also the top hit for "robot erotica", so perhaps there was still hope!

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