What is Blog Search?
Blog Search is Google search technology focused on blogs. Google is a
strong believer in the self-publishing phenomenon represented by
blogging, and we hope Blog Search will help our users to explore the
blogging universe more effectively, and perhaps inspire many to join the
revolution themselves. Whether you're looking for Harry Potter reviews,
political commentary, summer salad recipes or anything else, Blog
Search enables you to find out what people are saying on any subject of
your choice.
Your results include all blogs, not just those published through
Blogger; our blog index is continually updated, so you'll always get the
most accurate and up-to-date results; and you can search not just for
blogs written in English, but in French, Italian, German, Spanish,
Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Brazilian Portuguese and other languages as
well.
How do I find Blog Search?
There are a few different ways you can get to Blog Search:
It's
the same search in each place, no matter how you get to it. The Navbar,
however, provides two buttons: one to search the blog you are currently
viewing, and one to search all blogs.
How do I use Blog Search?
Just type the word(s) you want to search for in the text box and click "Search." That's all there is to it!
If you want more control over your search, click the "Advanced
Search" link to the right of the search button. There you'll find
options to specify titles, authors, languages and more. Once you get
your search results, there will be an additional link that allows you to
switch between displaying the results with either the most relevant or
recent results at the top.
In the Blogger version of the interface, there is an extra "use
search options" link beneath the search box. This will show a few of the
most common advanced options, such as a specific blog or a date range
to search within.
Which blogs are included in Blog Search?
The goal of Blog Search is to include every blog that publishes a
site feed (either RSS or Atom). It is not restricted to Blogger blogs,
or blogs from any other service.
How do I get my blog listed?
If your blog publishes a site feed in any format and automatically pings an updating service (such as
Weblogs.com),
we should be able to find and list it. Also, we will soon be providing a
form that you can use to manually add your blog to our index, in case
we haven't picked it up automatically. Stay tuned for more information
on this.
Why aren't my oldest posts listed?
Since Blog Search indexes blogs by their site feeds, it will only
include items that have been posted since it started indexing a given
blog. For most blogs, that will be around June 2005, or the time at
which you submitted your blog for inclusion. We are working on ways to
include older posts as well.
What if I don't want to be listed?
If you do not publish a site feed for your blog, it will not be
included in Blog Search. However, if you previously published a site
feed that was included, the old posts will remain in the index, even
though new ones are not added.
Blog Search will also respect
robots.txt files and
NOINDEX, NOFOLLOW meta tags,
as described here.
How does Blog Search work?
Blog Search indexes blogs by their site feeds, which will be checked
frequently for new content. This means that Blog Search results for a
given blog will update with new content much faster than standard web
searches. Also, because of the structured data within site feeds, it is
possible to find precise posts and date ranges with much greater
accuracy.
Can I search for entire blogs or individual posts?
You can use Blog Search to find either specific posts or entire
blogs. The main search results always return links to posts. However,
when there are entire blogs that seem to be a good match for your query,
these will appear in a short list just above the main search results.
Can I subscribe to search results?
Yes. At the bottom of each page of search results you can find
several links, offering the top 10 or 100 results as either Atom or RSS
feeds. Just grab the links from here and subscribe to them in the news
aggregator of your choice and you will get updates whenever new posts
are made that match your query.
(If you've never subscribed to feeds before, check out
Blogger Help and
AtomEnabled for more information, along with links to various
programs you can use to subscribe.)
What search operators are supported?
All of the standard
Google Search operators are supported in Blog Search. These include:
Additionally, Blog Search supports the following new operators of its own:
- inblogtitle:
- inposttitle:
- inpostauthor:
- blogurl:
For example, a search such as [
mandolin inpostauthor:Graham]
will show you posts about mandolins written by people named Graham.
Note that you can also use the Advanced Search option to achieve the
same effect.
Can I find blogs in specific languages?
Yes, you can restrict results to any of 35 specific languages by
using the Advanced Search options. Just check the boxes next to the
languages you want to include. By default, results include blogs written
in all languages.
Does Blog Search support SafeSearch filtering?
Yes,
SafeSearch can be used to filter out adult sites, just like in Google Search.
What do I do if I still have questions?
Just contact the
Blog Search Team.
Remember that if you change your blog's URL, you release the old URL
for other bloggers to use. You can also host your blog on a custom domain.
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