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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 databyss · · Score: 5, Funny

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

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    2. Re:Well, it does work. by ahaning · · Score: 5, Informative

      OMGWTFBBQ (the SA admin) was in an IRC channel and they were coming up wth random acronyms.

      He explains this in the SAclopedia:

      Way back when, I used to work for a few online Mac Gaming websites. Inside Mac Games, Mac Gamer's Ledge, MacGamer, etc. During that time, I was often to be found on GameRanger, a Mac equivalent to Gamespy Arcade (it's actually better if you ask me). Anyhow, there was another Mac gaming website run by a few Mac gamers with a sense of humor, Utterer.com, which was headed by none other than Frank "Utterer" Caratozzolo. Frank was also always on GameRanger, and we always chatted.

      One day, a person logged into GameRanger that was just a bit too AOLish for our tastes. As in, every time the guy said anything in chat, it had a "OMG" or a "LOL" or a "ROFLMAO" attached to it. Of course this gets annoying rather quickly, and Frank was tired of this guy's moronic BS. So what does any rational, sane person do? He floods the channel with as many acronyms as he can. Frank Started off with "OMG WTF BBQ DSL TNT BBC CNN CBS PCP RNR PBS NBA NFL..." and everyone else followed suit. The whole channel just spouted off every three letter acronym they could think of. The idiot got the hint and logged off.

      And that's where OMGWTFBBQ comes from. True, utterly boring, story.

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  2. For the love of $DEITY by kote-men-do · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Please let this mean that blogs are now excluded from the main google search?? Why can't they add an extra tab (sites, images, news, blogs)?

    1. Re:For the love of $DEITY by Stephen+Williams · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Why would you want to discount search results just because they happen to be on blogs? That strikes me as cutting off your nose to spite your face.

      Sure, we all know that a large proportion of blogs are worthless. But if you do a search for, say, "java multithreading", you'll get a load of relevant results from blogs and non-blogs alike. The worthless "omg my bf is cheeting on me what am i going to do lol" type blogs contain no entries related to the search terms, so they won't appear in the results, and you won't have to read them.

      Like the rest of the Web, some blogs are interesting and informative, some aren't.

      -Stephen

    2. 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?

  3. What exactly is a "blog" these days? by CyricZ · · Score: 5, Insightful

    What is considered a "blog" these days? I can understand a personal journal of some 13-year-old angsty kid being considered a "blog". But is Slashdot considered a "blog"? Is the news listing on Borland's site considered a "blog"?

    It seems that any page that is updated frequently with entries of some sort is considered a "blog". And that ends up being a vast majority of pages. Perhaps the downfall of this service is that what it is supposed to be searching is not very well defined. One cannot do exact searches when the search medium is so undefined.

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

    ... OK, just kidding ;-)

  5. 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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  6. Now all they need to do by seanyboy · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Is place link farms on a separate search page.
    Then Google search will be useful again.

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  7. Defined by publishing a site-feed by TigerTale · · Score: 5, Informative

    Google's Blog Search FAQ explains that sites are indexed by their site feeds. So if your site publishes either an RSS or an Atom feed, it is--by this definition--a blog.

  8. Works well. by CABAN · · Score: 5, Interesting

    This new system works well and really shows the full potential of blogs.

    I did a search for my hometown, London, Ontario to see who is blogging.
    http://blogsearch.google.com/blogsearch?hl=en&q=lo ndon+ontario&btnG=Search+Blogs.

    7 out of 10 were scraper sites built for adsense.

    Looks like this great new search tool will make them money in the long run.

  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. wow by hyperstation · · Score: 5, Funny

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