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# Blog search
- URL: https://www.lorcandempsey.net/blog-search/
- Published: 2005-11-06T22:42:26.000Z
- Updated: 2020-10-28T21:01:39.000Z
- Author: Lorcan Dempsey
- Tags: Social, Systems

There are lots of blog search services around. It will be interesting to see how they consolidate, and what emerges as preferred functionality.  
I have ego feeds set up with several and in my experience none does significantly better than others, although I don’t watch it closely. [Blogpulse](https://www.blogpulse.com/?ref=lorcandempsey.net), [Technorati](https://www.technorati.com/?ref=lorcandempsey.net), [PubSub](https://www.pubsub.com/?ref=lorcandempsey.net), [Icerocket](https://blogs.icerocket.com/?ref=lorcandempsey.net) and [Feedster](https://https//feedster.com?ref=lorcandempsey.net) will occasionally throw up a result the others don’t have.  
In fact, my impression, not tested, is that Google’s [Blogsearch](https://blogsearch.google.com/?ref=lorcandempsey.net) gives the best overall coverage.  
That said, it provides a ‘flat search’ – it does not allow you to follow the ‘[big-assed threaded conversation](https://blog.oclc.org/lorcand/archives/000824.html?ref=lorcandempsey.net)‘ that blogging is. For that reason, I find that I will look at it in addition to, not instead of, Technorati.  
Newer services are appearing – testament to the importance of the blog. [Blogniscient](https://www.blogniscient.com/?ref=lorcandempsey.net) categorizes and ranks blogs and incorporates Google’s Blogsearch. [Sphere](https://www.sphere.com/?ref=lorcandempsey.net) is a new blog search tool in beta, which claims to return results by relevance.  
Some services allow you to search for blogs among other results. [Yahoo News](https://news.yahoo.com/?ref=lorcandempsey.net) is one, though I have not used it much as I did not seem to me to give as good results as others when I looked at it. [Rollyo](https://www.rollyo.com/?ref=lorcandempsey.net) allows you to ‘roll your own’ search by nominating groups of sites – potentially including blogs – to search together. A variety of celebrity searches are available. It doesn’t have the critical mass to mean that I use it.  
Given all that, I find the most interesting recent development to be the new search capacity on [del.icio.us](https://del.icio.us/search/?ref=lorcandempsey.net). It allows navigation within the aggregate personal choices of its users – in terms of tags and links. And in fact, as I used it, it struck me that following tags is like conversation in some ways: in each case, you get hints and pointers, you fork in different directions, you are at the intersection of a variety of interests, and you are woven into a fabric of reference which may have more or less to do with the world outside the conversation.  
If del.icio.us search were to have greater mass it would be a compelling service!