Well, Google sure doesn't seem to be slowing down. Today comes news that Google has added a
blog search service, a nice complement to
Google News. Google has been expected for some time to be adding blog search (after all, it bought
Blogger a couple years ago); it's finally here.
There are plenty of other blog-search services out there, of course;
Technorati
is probably the most widely known. Among the major Web search engines,
though, blog search is still coming. (Search Engine Watch's
Chris Sherman has a
good overview of Google's new offering and the larger industry picture.)
Blog search is a great research tool for journalists to survey coverage
of a topic, of course. Now Google offers a more complete research
solution with Google News and Google Blog Search. The two don't overlap
much -- Google News tracks very few blogs -- so use them both to get a
good feel for what's been published in the traditional press and on blogs
on a topic you may be covering.
