Yahoo Blog Search Is Live, With Good Visibility
Yahoo Blog Search is now available for all to enjoy, and it has been integrated into Yahoo News Search. John Battelle has the scoop, Yahoo’s blog has more.
Now, when you do a news search at Yahoo, you will see a selection of four blog results, and you can click on a link to see more.
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Blog results have sidebars with Flickr photos and links to MyWeb 2.0, as well as subscribing to the results via RSS. Search results have links to the website’s RSS feeds, and to add them to MyWeb 2.0. One bad idea: The RSS URLs are redirects, so you can’t just right-click on them and copy them to your reader.
So, how to test relevancy? Oh, this one’s easy! Which engine has the best results for “Yahoo blog search”, since its been launched within the hour?
When results are sorted by “Relevance”, Yahoo Blog Search has nothing about it being launched within the first 20 (for purposes of this test, only the first 20 count). Under date, none of the results are within eight hours.
Google Blog Search has nothing under relevance and nothing under date.
Technorati’s top three results are excellent, including this very post.
I don’t understand why John Battelle’s post isn’t there. While Technorati wins, it might be wise to find a way of checking top bloggers for updates a lot more often.
IceRocket has the first two. And it couldn’t hurt if they had relative times, letting me know how old posts were, instead of actual times, which are harder to scan.
Verdict: When it comes to timely search, the older engines have it better (but not perfect), and Yahoo and Google have a lot to learn. Relevancy is where the future’s at, however. I’m thinking a Memeorandum solution might be better than just regular old search. Of course, Memeorandum doesn’t have a search engine, so the first person to steal their UI and give it full-blogosphere search capabilities will be my new best friend blog search engine.
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As of the time of this posting, Google Blog search shows this blog number in its results, and two others for Yahoo Blog Search. Yahoo still shows nothing.
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