Gigablast’s blog search is in beta, but the quality of its results is on par with, if not better than, the results you get with other blog search engines. Gigablast is a web search engine that also offers blog search. See my SearchDay story All the News That’s Fit For All the News That’s Fit For You for more on how this works. Blogory’s main page looks a lot like Google news, with clippings from “top blogs” and links to blogs organized by categories.īlogory doesn’t offer an advanced search for blogs, but it does provide cool personalized, adaptive RSS feeds that automatically find blogs for you based on your interests and other blogs you’ve read. Additionally, you can filter out certain feeds including your own.įindory is a news search tool that has a separate tab for blogs. To find feeds, you can enter keywords, URLs or a combination of both.įeedster’s advanced search page offers the ability to limit your search to just certain feeds or collections of feeds. Feedster also lets you search for both items within feeds, as well as feeds themselves, rather than doing a full text search. See Gary Price’s interview with Dan Chan, Daypop’s founder and proprietor, for a fascinating glimpse behind the scenes of the service.ĭaypop’s advanced search page provides basic date filters, but also allows you to limit results to a particular language or country, something most other blog/feed search tools do not support.įeedster offers a number of interesting features, such as the ability to subscribe to a search and save it as a feed, or to have new results sent to you via email. A one-man operation, Daypop doesn’t seem to have the momentum it once had, at least compared with similar services. ![]() ![]() You can also limit results to content published within a particular date range, and sort results by date or relevance.ĭaypop was one of the first blog/feed search engines, receiving honorable mentions in the Search Engine Watch awards in 20. A drop-down menu next to its search form allows you to search all of the blogs it has indexed, only the blogs you subscribe to, the web (via Ask Jeeves), or add a feed to your subscription.īloglines’ advanced search page gives you basic form-based Boolean capabilities, and also provides filters to sort your results by popularity or date, and to search all blogs, only those in your subscriptions, or to exclude your subscribed blogs when searching.īloglines has many other useful features for reading feeds and managing subscriptions that I’ll describe in tomorrow’s SearchDay, which focuses on feed readers.ĭigital Marketing Email, The Weapon Against Identity FraudĪlthough BlogPulse is known primarily as a tool for tracking trends and hot topics in the blogosphere, it also has a good feed search engine, and depending on the numbers you believe, also has one of the largest indexes of feed-based content of any feed search service.īlogPulse’s advanced search page provides phrase search, all the words or any of the words filters, and even allows you to create your own free-form Boolean queries. For a more comprehensive list, see Peter Scott’s list of RSS search services at his RSS Compendium site.īloglines, owned by Ask Jeeves, is both a feed search tool and a feed reader/aggregator. Here’s a look at some of the better-known players in the blog feed search space. So finding relevant feeds, at least for the time-being, often remains a hit-or-miss affair. And while there are a number of smaller, specialized blog and feed search engines, their lack of resources and the problem of blog and feed spam means their search results are often useless. The major search engines are all dabbling with feed search, but none offer a robust service as yet. Even the venerable Yahoo Directory is available now through RSS feeds.Īlthough there are literally millions of feeds available, finding those that are appealing and relevant to you isn’t always easy. For example, you can get RSS feeds with weather forecasts, company news and financial information, package tracking and lots of others. ![]() While blogs arguably make up the majority of RSS content, many news sites also syndicate content via RSS-for example, Search Engine Watch is available via RSS feeds.īut RSS feeds are increasingly being used for other types of content.
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