which is the best blog search engine?
By: Deepti Jain
Robert Scoble has posted an interesting article on his blog, raising the question: Which blog search is the best of them all? According to him, Technorati seems to trump Google blog search because it includes information that Google Blog search does not, and offers more search results when you punch in a specific term.
Both the search engines have their own specific features:
Technorati features:
Technorati allows you to filter your search results according to link authority. This allows you to find out what the big or popular blogs are saying about a specific topic. Also offering the ability to sort results according to language.
It also allows filteration against sblogs, to do so, simply set the filter to either blogs with some authority or blogs with a lot of authority. This guarantees that your search results do not include splogs.
Google Blog search features:
Google Blog Search on the other hand offers the ability to sort material according to specific time frames. It has all the basic functions, including ranking results by date or by relevance. (Interestingly, the default is by relevance, like other Google searches, instead of by date, which is the default for most blog displays.) But more importantly, the advanced search offers powerful functionality such as searching by date ranges and limiting to individual blog authors, in addition to features like searching for words in a blog post title or by language.
The niftiest feature of Google blog search is the ability to create a custom RSS or Atom feed based on search results. Users can opt to subscribe to either the top ten or top one hundred listings for a particular search query. Google will then provide a feed that can be added to a user’s favorite aggregator.
So it depends on which features you wanna use and Which engine is working best for that? Just try it and find which one is better for you!!
