The Trouble With Google’s Blog Search
November 16, 2007 by Vince Leibowitz · Leave a Comment
Since Google’s Blog Search’s debut some time ago, I’ve always thought of it as a pretty handy tool for bloggers and the rest of the world. It helps you find timely blog posts on topics you are interested in. And, for bloggers, it can help you find your own posts easily and quickly so you can link back to them as needed.
Or, so I thought.
It turns out, however, that Google’s Blog Search isn’t all that it is cracked up to be. While it is admittedly a small glitch that I’m addressing here, for the user of the advanced Blog Search unfamiliar with all of its features and filters, it could cause you to be shielded from a lot of content that you actually want or are trying to find.
I figured this out the hard way the other day.
While writing a post about the new website Need Over Greed, I decided it would be a good idea to highlight some blog coverage of the health and human services privatization disaster from a couple of Texas blogs–mine and Charles Kuffner’s Off The Kuff.
When trying to find some of my older posts, I often do a regular Google search using the title of my blog, “Capitol Annex,” and a key word or phrase I know is in the post I’m looking for. I tried running this string on Google’s Blog Search and wasn’t finding the posts I wanted for either my blog of Kuff’s. So, I decided to try the advanced search functions.
