Searching for Blogs

Google recognizes that some of the world’s information resides in blogs. Part of fulfilling its mission of providing access to this information is accomplished by the Google Blog Search (http://blogsearch.google.com).

Cross-Ref 

You can find Blog Search on Google’s Blogger pages, which is covered in more detail in Chapter 25.

You can search for blogs two ways in Google: You can type a keyword or phrase into the search box on the Blog Search home page and click Search Blogs, or you can choose to search the Web by clicking Search the Web also found below the search box.

Note 

Blog Search is not limited to blogs in English or Blogger sites. Google has indexed blogs in many languages across the entire Internet.

To focus your search, you can use any of the operators found in Table 24.1 in the Blog Search text box. These operators do not work properly when used in the Google Web search.

Table 24.1: Blog Search Operators
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Operator	Description
inblogtitle:	Finds search terms in the title of the Blog, not the individual postings
inposttitle:	Finds search terms in the posting title, not the title of the blog
inpostauthor:	Finds search terms in the name of the author of a posting to a blog
blogurl:	Finds the search terms in the URL of the blog

Use the blog search operators when typing search terms in the search box. Put the value directly next to the operator without spaces like this: inpostauthor:”mortimer sneed”.

Note 

Remember that you can create search phrases by placing search terms within quotes.