Google Blogsearch

Google Blogsearch link

Google owns blogger, we of cyberspace all know that, right? So here’s a post to archive the link to the blogsearch page. It can be accessed there at the link above, or on blogspot pages, blogger’s home page, etc.

My first blog was a blogger one. That was before they were owned by Google. I wanted my own site and software within the first day of my blogging. Eventually I got this site. I had ISP space, still do actually, but that stuff is so limited it’s silly to use for much of anything. With my own domain space I firstly used Movable Type and was happy with it for awhile, and also growing in the Gnu understanding and beliefs. Before Movable Type upgraded to the newer stuff with more restrictions I was all ready to jump ship and go with something else, but hadn’t done it before they actually released their restrictions info. I was one of the rats that jumped ship right away. I was trying two pieces of software locally (on my pc localhost web) and finally narrowed it down to Word Press and that’s what I upgraded to when Movable Type lost my total interest. Textpattern was the other one, and it lost due to it’s proprietary coding, though it was richly built out already when I was testing it, and the owner/creator was saying it would ALWAYS be “free” to people like me, but like I said before Gnu has it’s winning personality … and Word Press was right up my alley, free, in creative mode with many people and always would be out there being updated as long as there was even one interested coder working on it. It was not in it’s baby stages when I found it, but it was much less rich than today’s stable build is.

The reason for writing this is just to have a post about it, that I appreciate blogger for what it can do for someone, but that I appreciate having my own control over the underlying code. I do see the usefullness of techonrati type places too, which WordPress categories are treated like technorati tags to the Technorati engine. Other blog indexes are out there, search engines galore … but the google blogsearch is a clean searchable engine that does pull up based on content not just “tags” … so it’s very useful. I though see it’s limitation as testing it with a subject from this site, it wasn’t indexed, therefore didnt’ find it when I searched for it. So knowing that, there will probably never be a 100% solution for indexing, there will be multitudes of spiders and aggregators for a long, long time (until this all changes to something else, which is likely, nothing stays the same, while everything remains the same … it’s that information will only change in how it’s used, displayed, etc. and things do actually change while the underlying data is the same … make sense?)

Anyhow, on the regular google search page there isn’t a blogsearch link viewable to the naked eye easily, if it’s there at all. So it was worthwhile, to me, to post a link post about it, and state what their help page about blogsearch states: any medium that you find a google blogsearch on is the same engine, just a portal, basically, in different places all to one thing: Google Blogsearch. For the non-Blogger blog person, blogsearch.google for useage makes more sense.

If you prefer, just tack “blogsearch” onto the end of the regular google domain too. 🙄

Here’s a link to the advanced blogsearch: Advanced Google Blogsearch link.

Guess what? It’s more precise in usage. Of course. It’s advanced. Search for a sort of thing like I did, a post title, with the regular search, it doesn’t find my post. Search with the advanced with only using the “exact phrase” box, it brings up only my post. Use the “all of the words” box and my post is at the bottom of the page, with other posts above, other peoples.

Go to regular blogsearch and my post doesn’t show up at all.

So if you really want to find something for sure, use advanced features in blogsearch. Just a topic of precision and not rocket science.