Google Blog Search or Technorati?

Published on Thursday, February 23, 2006

When doing a web search and your search engine of choice (Google, for most of you, I presume) doesn’t return as accurate or useful results as you had hoped, you might decide that you just want search blogs. Reasons for this can be because blogs usually contain very interesting information, comments on the information and also that they are normally very up-to-date.

The way I see it, there are two major tools for searching blogs: Technorati and Google Blog Search. Google seems to be a little faster, although Technorati has really picked up lately. Technorati also offers ways to see how popular that blog is that contains the information you searched for while you also know that the information that is most up-to-date will be amongst the top results.

Personally, I use Technorati to see how many people link to me and which the latest links are. I never use Google Blog Search.

Do you use any? If you do, which one?

Jad madi says:

February 23, 2006 at 15:01

For reason or another I've never used Google blog search, I don't feel it's the blog search platform, Technorati is the place for search for blogs or blog contents.

Paul D says:

February 23, 2006 at 16:12

I use both, but I find myself using Technorati more. The tag search is interesting with its "authoritative" rating. Unfortunately, it's painfully slow sometimes.

Google's blog search returns a lot more results (it even indexes Flickr photo pages), but it also returns a ton-load of crap. A typical search might return one real blog entry and several exact knock-offs (spam blogs) on the first page of results.

Richard says:

February 23, 2006 at 16:40

I never use Google Blog Search – not because I don't think it's as good as Technorati, though. It's purely that I'm used to Technorati – it's like force of habit. Besides, I've never had a problem getting the results I'm after with Technorati, so I see little reason to use Google.

I just have a habit of getting stuck in my ways.

Jeroen Mulder says:

February 23, 2006 at 19:22

I rarely use blog search tools, but when I do, it's Technorati. To me Technorati feels much more focused on blog search, simply because it's their core business.

The speed difference is worth to mention, but I favour the added value of Technorati more than it's removed speed.

Douglas Clifton says:

February 24, 2006 at 0:47

Also worth taking a look at: gada.be and IceRocket.

Robert Nyman says:

February 24, 2006 at 12:04

Thanks for sharing, people, and thanks for the tips, Douglas.

inoodle says:

February 24, 2006 at 13:26

Ah, thats what technorati is for. *all becomes clear* 🙂

February 24, 2006 at 13:41

inoodle,

Ha ha. 🙂

sculder says:

February 26, 2006 at 5:40

So far I usually search for russian blogs, I use only http://blog.yandex.ru search which works perfect, while google and especially Technorati sucks greatly in sorting russian pages by relevance.