Choosing a blog (weblog) search engine

I’ve been using several blog search engines. So far my favorite is Technorati. I use the tagging and watchlist features on a daily basis.

The runner up is icerocket.com with its cool trending feature, an excellent implementation of something that can be hard to do well.

Google BlogSearch comes in third, but I use it a lot.

Pet peeves:

• Why is it different from the Search New Content engine in Google Reader?
• Why isn’t it visible from the Google front page?
• Why isn’t it integrated with Google News? They are looking for the same kind of daily updated content.

Even with those faults, it’s still the most confidence inspiring.

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