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Users of the woefully slow, spam-ridden Technorati will be happy to learn that Google have just announced their first foray into the world of blog search.

Blogger.com users won’t have missed the prominent addition of Google Blog Search on the dashboard page that allows you to “Search blogs from all over the web”, not just Blogger-hosted ones.

The site has that user-friendly feel seen across Blogger.com and is as fast as you’d expect from Google, featuring the usual keyword search as well as two advanced options beside each result that let you find phrases within the pages of a specific blog, or view all of the pages from a blog.

It also includes a tool to find references to individual pages, one of the features I use the most on Technorati and Bloglines.

The fact that the index for the search engine is limited to blogs published after March of this year show that Google Blog Search is still in beta status, but Google will likely tweak and improve it as they go along.

Google Blog Search Beta on Blogger.com
Main Google Blog Search Site
About Google Blog Search

Related:
BBC: Google unveils blog search site
Blogger Buzz: Explore Blogs
Google (Finally) Offers Blog Search

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