Google blog Search Ben Hammersly has been busy creating some cool tools with Google's API: His gbloogle faq explains it all. This one's going in my links now! Get LISTed with the Gblog's service... [found via onlineblog.com ] submitted by Dog News: weird, inspiring dog tales

A goodie from blogtree.com Find out who's in your weblog neighborhood with the help of a nice cgi script from blogtree.com and data provided by Blogdex. (Even if Dave says the weblog neighborhood tool is academic, it's a cool way to find out who's related to you in the blog world.)

Blogtree writes: I've "CGI'd" (ugh) my script so you can have a go too. Call it like this: http://www.pipetree.com/~dj/cgi-bin/bdexp?url=http://www.pipetree.com/qmacro/ and have patience while the script descends Blogdex information and does its stuff. I've deliberately slowed the script down so it doesn't hammer Blogdex's servers. In fact, results are cached too, for added politeness :->  [from Blogtree.com]

But wait - there's more! So that the information made available through this script might be used to correlate, augment, and otherwise confuse neighbourhood information determined from other sources and methods like Mark's and Dave's, you can get XML output, rather than HTML. Just add &xml=1 to the URL like this: http://www.pipetree.com/~dj/cgi-bin/bdexp?url=http://www.pipetree.com/qmacro/&;xml=1 and you'll get a very simple XML format containing the same data. This makes it dead easy to just pull in this Blogdex-powered neighbourhood information into your own tool. Well, that's the theory anyway :-) (You can specify the depth with &depth=N too).  [blogtree.com] submitted by Dog News: weird, inspiring dog tales