Google has launched a new search engine specifically for blogs. Pretty cool, if you ask me.
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after i read about it last night, i ran some tests with it to see how its search parameters manifested responses. It seems to be very good at name recognition and with a whole host of categories that were evidently pre-selected. It isn't yet quite so good with blog quotes(at least relative to the regular search algorhythms) and seems to continually rereference the same blogs over and over, ad infinitum, when the name contains one of the category terms. Otherwise it is cool, and i for one will find it to be hugely useful once i am more comfortable with its results.
I ran some tests of my own and i'm cautiously optimistic that this could be a good thing. In my experiences from using technorati, feedster, and others is that 90% of results are blog spam, 9% are from some type of news source, and the remaining 1% is from an actual blog, though usually only picking up your keywords without being about the topic you were looking for. So I rarely even bother using them anymore, but my first reaction from google's is that it seems to be giving me more actual blog posts than I would usually get from others so I'm happy.