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Author: Titus Hoskins Article source: http://www.rssuniverse.com/. Used with author's permission.
Google is moving in so many directions, it can be somewhat
difficult to keep track of all the services and tools
offered by this premium search engine. For the seasoned
webmaster as well as the ordinary surfer, keeping a clear
picture of what Google is offering is sometimes a little
overwhelming.
Recently, there has been a deluge of new products from
Google. If you hit the 'more' button on the Google Home
page, you will see a smattering of Google services and
tools. Including Desktop 2, Print, Maps, Google Earth...
you can even search and browse mail-order catalogs.
Now comes Blog Search - where Internet users can now
search blogs for their information. This is a welcomed
service, especially for bloggers. Google's embracing of
blogs started with the purchase of Blogger.com and got
sidetracked with the 'costly' argument over which
syndication standard to use. Most favored RSS while
Google promoted the Atom standard for its blog feeds.
Blogs are online journals where ordinary people give
opinions, information and links on topics that matter
to them. These topics can be anything under the
sun: from politics to needlepoint to corporate blogs
to your local school's basketball team. Blogs give a
real insight into what ordinary surfers believe and feel
about a subject.
It's an instant snapshot of our world in words and pictures
-- but mostly words.
Blogs are often associated with RSS because RSS is
the syndication standard that sends out the blog's content
in little snippets to all interested parties. Subscribers
to these blogs can read these headlines in News Readers or
Aggregators and then click on the links to get more
information. Keep in mind, the original acronym for
RSS is 'Rich Site Summary', but that meaning has been
somewhat replaced by the major benefit of RSS which
is 'Really Simple Syndication'.
Many browsers are now coming with an RSS reader already
built-in, such as the popular Mozilla's Firefox browser.
Microsoft's new Longhorn version of Windows will have
RSS built into its operating system.
Recently Google has embraced RSS in its Desktop 2 program
and in the XML powered Google Sitemaps. Now comes Blog
Search, a way to search all the information in these blogs.
In the past, most bloggers have used the Technorati site
to search blogs as well as RSS search offered by MSN and
Yahoo.
Some things you should know about Google Blog Search:
1. How to access it? You can use the blog Search site
www.blogsearch.google.com or www.search.blogger.com
You may also use the Navigational Bar on any BlogSpot
blog, plus you will also be able to access it from your
Blogger Dashboard. The Blogger Navbar gives you the option
of searching within the current blog or searching all blogs.
Major criticism -- Google has not placed a link on its
home (front) page of Google search; as blogs and blogging
becomes even more popular maybe this error will be fixed.
2. Who's included? It should be noted that Google will index
all blogs using a site feed (RSS or Atom) and you can get
your Blog indexed just by using an automatic pinging service
offered by such sites as www.weblogs.com
Please Note -- Your older posts may not be present in search
results, Google started indexing feeds around June, 2005.
Older posts may be included at a later date.
3. What search operators or query words are supported? You can
use these standard Google Search modifiers and Google will
restrict your results -- link:, site:, intitle: plus new
ones for Blog Search -- inblogtitle:, inposttitle:,
inpostauthor:, and blogurl:
4. Can I subscribe to search results? Yes, just use the News
Aggregator of your choice and subscribe to the feeds at
the bottom of the results page, then you can be automatically
updated as new posts come online.
5. Can I use Safesearch? Yes, Google lets you filter out any
unwanted sites.
More information on Blog Search click here:
http://www.google.com/help/about_blogsearch.html
Blog Search is a great extension to the Google Search Empire,
it will give surfers access to a greater range of material.
No doubt, this is not the end of what Google has to offer to
its loyal followers. Persistent speculation and rumors abound,
it just won't go away, rumors that Google is NOT only designing
its own browser (it owns the domain gbrowser.com) but its own
operating system.
But why stop there -- if you're dreaming of the perfect
search -- you must go further. Google must go further!
And since we're dreaming...
How about a Google delivered Instant Search embedded in a
Google RSS Powered Operating System on a Google designed
ultra-portable notebook computer with a wireless cell phone
modem, accessible anywhere in the world...
...wake me up when it arrives! The author is a self-admitted Google addict and user! You can find
his main Internet Marketing Site here: Google Cash File
Copyright © 2005 Titus Hoskins. Get a Free Desktop Calendar & Planner compliments of
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