Has Google Improved Its Blog Search Feature?

Writing by Nick Stamoulis on Monday, May 18, 2009 Comments (2)

It seems that Google has improved its blog search function and made it more competitive with Technorati, Techmeme, and other blog search services. Competition is always a good thing.

The thing with Google Blog Search has always been its lack of relevant results and often older results. I guess the domain age part of Google’s algorithm was a bit too dominant. According to an article in Mashable recently, Google fixed those issues. I certainly hope that’s true.

So I thought I’d test it. I searched for “search engine optimization” using Google’s Blog Search. The first thing that popped up were results for relevance. That’s no good if I want to know what the latest information is. So I clicked on the “Sorted by date” link and the latest information I got was 44 minutes ago. On search engine optimization? Not likely.

So Google’s Blog Search may be improved, but it’s far from being perfected.

In all fairness, I was able to click on “Last hour” to see the truly latest results. But 11 minutes ago was the closest I could find. And one cool feature that is very recent is the “Choose Dates” link, which allows you to search within a specific time frame. Now that’s an improvement!

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Made Thursday, 21 of May , 2009 at 1:05 pm

Yes, definitely Google blog search has improved their search service in more effective way. They are now capable of reading links on web pages. For example if you search for a query like a website url searchengineoptimizationjournal.com, Google blog search automatically uses the “link:” service and displays the list of all blogs that have backlinked to the website URL presented in your search query.

Also, google has now introduced some changes in the way they index content from blogs / RSS feeds. As before, they were only capable of using links from RSS feeds to decide the results for “link:” service but now they also consider links that are mentioned on web pages as well very similar to Technorati.

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Made Thursday, 21 of May , 2009 at 1:35 pm

@Windows VPS Hosting – Thanks for your comment and reading…very good analogy to Technorati!