There are more than 14 million blogs
in existence, with another 80,000
being created each day
Which means a new weblog
is created about every second
Exploring the Blogosphere
Ask's new blog and feed search offers a high-quality alternative for finding information in the blogosphere, with a number of unique tools not found on competing services.
A basic search lets you limit results to posts, feeds or news within the blogosphere. Unlike many blog search services, which sort results with the most recent posts appearing first, Ask Blog & Feeds search lists results by relevance. You can re-sort results by date or popularity by clicking a link.
When sorted by relevance or popularity, a dropdown menu lets you further refine your results, displaying results from the last hour, day, week or month.
One of the nicest features of the new service is the ability to preview results before clicking through, using the "binoculars" feature similar to that found in Ask web search results. The nice thing about this feature is that it previews the entire feed as a popup above the search result, allowing you to scan the feed before taking action.
Since blogging and feeds tend to be more associated with individuals rather than organizations, Ask has also implemented a sophisticated name-recognition capability. Search for a name, and for active bloggers you see links to posts by and posts about the person. Another feature surfaces "top feeds" based on a combination of relevance to your query and popularity of blogs that match your query.
Ask is also offering an advanced search for blogs and feeds. This opens an Ajax-like dropdown below the search form with additional feature such as Boolean search, a more precise date search, and the ability to search for posts written in specific languages.
Ask's new Blogs & Feeds service, in short, rocks. It's well worth a try, whether you track hundreds of feeds or just occasionally want to check out the alternative points of view offered by the millions of bloggers who might not otherwise be found.
Google Blog Search
Yahoo Search Blog
ZDNet Tech Blogs
Technorati
IceRocket blog search
Blog Search Engine
Blogosphere Attention Distributors
Advancing Socially Shared
Journal Entry Reader Kinship Seekers
Bloglines is a FREE online service for searching, subscribing, creating and sharing news feeds, blogs and rich web content. Bloglines shields you from the confusion of news feed standards -- RSS, Atom, and others and allows you to search for, read and share any updates from your favorite news feed or blog regardless of its authoring technology. You can make your own personalized news page tailored to your unique interests from our index of tens of millions of live internet content feeds, including articles, blogs, images and audio.
Blogger ~ owned by Google
MSN Spaces~ owned by Microsoft
Extended Networks
Video Blogging
The Social Dynamics of the Blogosphere
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