Google News Links To Blogsearch
Steve Rubel noticed that Google News now includes a link to Google Blogsearch. I’ve wanted many times to use Blogsearch, but the URL is ridiculous (blogsearch.google.com). Couldn’t Google buy a decent URL? The link is nice, but think of how to get there:
- Option 1: type blogsearch.google.com, a 21-character URL
- Option 2: type google.com
- Click “News”
- Click “Blog search”
Consider that Google Blogsearch’s competitors, all of which have less-than-perfect URLs, are still shorter and easier. Technorati.com. Bloglines.com. Icerocket.com. Feedster.com. Even ask.com/blogsearch is shorter. What really annoys me is that the Blog Search link on News isn’t dynamic, like the other Google tabs, that you could type something in Google.com, click the News then Blog Search link and the search term would carry over. Also, the link doesn’t appear on Google News results pages.
Still, Blog Search is pretty good, and deserves the better positioning. I’d be even happier if it were in the “More” box on Google.com, but it’s a start.
* The link does appear (at least for me) in the news results - go to the bottom of the results for anything you’d search for in “news” ; and you’ll get a link to Google blogs.
* Not only that the Blog search engine doesn’t appear on the google.com page, also Google Scholar and other Beta products (as well as Google Answers, from some unknown reason) do not appear in the direct search tabs.
Comment by PG | October 23, 2006
Or you can create a bookmark and put it in the toolbar. That’d be a lot easier.
Comment by NaR | October 23, 2006
While reading this article I want to invite users for a discussion in my blog
Can google get Gods mind?
This was one argument in 2004.I want to validate this argument with diverse opionions by comparing the current trends of google like the one which is described in the post above
http://ragusivanmalai.blogspot.com/2006/10/can-google-get-gods-mind.html
Come on Google users
Comment by Ragu Sivanmalai | October 23, 2006
search.blogger.com is a lot easier to type and remember.
Comment by Sam | October 23, 2006
I’ve been going to the search through blogsearch.google.com. I think Google’s hesitation for making this easily accessible has something to do with not really wanting to heavily promote blogs, possibly due to some of them being not-so-factual and the like.
In any event, when I do use Google’s blogsearch (and I do use it a fair amount), I don’t mind typing in the URL.
Comment by Tamar Weinberg | October 23, 2006
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Trackback by Googlified | October 23, 2006
Perhaps they didn’t want to confuse people since blog.google.com links to blogger already?
I think they should alias blogs.google.com for Blog Search, though.
Comment by Tim | October 26, 2006