GOOGLE'S BLOG SEARCH
In lighter news for a change, Google just rolled out the beta version of their blog search engine. As many will likely ask: doesn't Technorati already do that? The answer would be "yes" but that's not going to stop Google from making a power move into the same territory (you have to wonder if it crossed their minds to just buy Technorati). So far, it's producing some interesting results, even in beta stage.
Search for "Katrina" for example and Google spits back over 750,000 results compared to Technorati's 240,000. The former can be organized by relevance or date while the latter is strictly chronologically shuffled. However, I noticed that Google would give back results for sites that are not technically blogs, including pages on About.com and NPR's websites.
This said, for egocentric Leos such as myself, this just opens up a whole new way to see what folks are saying about you. Or people with your name. For example, I discovered there's an Oliver Wang who hosts a Mandarin-language radio show in Dublin. As in Ireland. And then there's this person who hates Kanye West and hated my NPR review of Late Registration:
- "Please, please, please do NOT choose a bad example of a genre to raise up on a false pedistal and praise. My grandmother could out-rap this pathetic punk."
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