Google Throttles Blog Search Indexing by Michael Martinez, SEO-Theory (Feb 12)
Michael Martinez ran a few searches to show to Google that its BlogSearch servce is seriously impaired possibly because they added a page-ranked-based filter.
"Google relaunched its Blogsearch service in October with a format similar to that of Google News Search. It appears to me that Google has sacrificed the quality of its index for the sake of being able to replicate a DIGG-like functionality for its default Blogsearch results. Marshall Kirkpatrick compared it to Techmeme at Read Write Web."
Google responded to the blog posting to explain some of the results - not entirely to Michael Martinez's satisfaction.
So - if you use Google's BlogSearch, be aware that there are shortcomings. You also have to like its new Google-News look with topic breakdown and aggregated stories.
Posted by Gwen at February 15, 2009 03:04 PM