Wednesday, January 07, 2004

Short list of blog search engines. Ari Paparo via the Waypath blog via Michael: Big List of Blog Search Engines. While all of them crawl blogspace, many don't just perform blog search. Here's my short list in alphabetical order, along with what I use these engines for.

1. Name: Blogdex
URL: http://www.blogdex.net/
Useful for : Keeping track of popular items on your blog, getting an RSS feed of links into your blog.

2. Name: Feedster
URL: http://www.feedster.com/
Useful for :
  • Searching weblogs.
  • Getting a continually updated RSS feed of matches for any search request.
3. Name: LocalFeeds.com/GeoURL
URL: http://www.localfeeds.com/ , http://www.geourl.org/
Useful for : Spotting bloggers by location

4. Name: Technorati
URL: http://www.technorati.com/
Useful for :
  • Tracking inbound links from weblogs to just about anything, using the Technorati Anywhere! bookmarklet (a godsend).
  • Figuring out who else follows that new blogger on the block.

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