No doubt youve heard about Google’s new blog search today? I think just about everyone’s posted something about it.
Todd Cochrane says Technorati, PubSub and Feedster are dead meat. Robert Scoble says: It’s made a great first impression, and David Sifry says: Welcome.
But I’m still not convinced that it’s going to be the be all and end all for blog search. I haven’t been playing with it for that long, but there’s a few issues that I think need sorting: Say I wanted to look for a PR blogger, so I type in ‘pr blogger’ in the search query, guess what? My last 10 posts show up on the first page. Flattered as I am, I don’t deserve to be up there. So you say, why don’t you just type ‘public relations’ in your query? So I do that, and although I get a list of PR blogs, none of which are who I would say are the most prolific and well known PR bloggers. However, you do receive, what I would think are more accurate results, when you search ‘pr blog’.
How does Google page rank the blogs?
I’ve set up quite a few feeds from keywords, and I’m going to keep a monitor on them. See how it goes.
Techorati tags:
googleblogsearch, pr, publicrelations
Stephen is a communications consultant based out of the UK. You can connect with him on Twitter or check out his LinkedIn profile. | Email Stephen
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