Google has just launches a blog search service: Google Blog Search. Interesting to know is that according to Google Launches Industrial Strength Blog Search Google Blog Search only indexes content it finds in feeds. So if you publish only excerpts in your feed (I think this is what we do for the it-eye weblog), only the excerpt will be indexed. This is plenty reason to either publish your full post in your feed, or to put all the important keywords in your excerpt. You can get the Google Blog Search results as a feed, so you can for example subscribe to the 10 latest blog results for the keywords oracle and adf (atom feed).
Another website of interest is tech.memeorandum. This website lists the most blogged about technology news items. If you want to know what’s hot in the blogosphere, just surf to tech.memeorandum. They also have a website for political weblogs: memeorandum.
September 14th, 2005 at 23:48:06
Well,
I think the best tool google gave blog readers, is the personalized home page,
where you can put any rss/atom url and put it in your personalized home page.
This, is the only way I access feeds/forums, the good thing with it, is that it’s saved in the web and you can access it from every where, not like client tools. There are other sites that do the same, but if google are doing it, and doing it well (as most things) then …
Oded.
September 16th, 2005 at 11:18:23
I haven’t used google’s personalized home page yet. I read feeds mostly using thunderbird, and sometimes using newsgator.