Google Launches Blog Search

Dave Taylor answers the question How do I Use Google Blog Search? in his Ask Dave Taylor! Tech Support Blog.

Yes, Google has launched its inevitable blog search, although the Beta tag lets us know that it might not quite be ready for prime time.

Risking the fear that I might go blind, I Googled Rich Brooks at the new blog search. Somehow, some other guy named Rich Brooks (not the coach, actor, director or white supremacist) came up first under "Related Blogs", and my own blog, flyte: what works online, got two listings there; one for http://www.flyteblog.com and one for http://flyte.blogs.com.

The next five listings were posts that I had written either for flyte: what works online, or for Business Blog Consulting. They seemed to be posted in chronological order.

I also found a number of people linking to posts of mine I didn't know, but am glad I discovered. (I need to go back and read more by Mark from Blog Marketing, Blog Promotion for Newbies. I like what I saw--thoughtful, interesting--but I just ran out of time.)

Ooh, ooh! This is cool! After each post listed, if there are any other blogs that link to you, you can discover them. Click on the "References" link to see who is linking to your post.

A narcissist like myself could lose hours of productivity every day with a tool like this one.

Well, what are you waiting for? Go check it out!

Rich Brooks
Self-Absorbed Blogger

Comments

[Terry Matlen]

Rich,

Great article- I didn't know Google had launched this. I checked out my name too- guess I'm also a narcissist- and my blg came up at #6 (interestingly, my comments on YOUR blog were ranked higher).

Then I searched under my blog specialty (ADHD) and YAY- I came up #4.

But using the longer term, "attention deficit", I was nowhere to be found.

Any tips on how to improve rankings there?

Thanks,
Terry

[Mark Wade]

Hey Rich,

Wow - I appreciate the link AND the compliment :-) but you deserve the credit - that is a cool tool "The We-We Calculator." Thanks for pointing to it.

Kind Regards,

Mark