Is Google Blog Search Broken?
Is Google Blog Search broken and full of spam?
Google is top dog when it comes to indexing speed but their index is chock full of spam.
The above quote is from Bruce Clay’s blog, in a post written by Lisa Barone.
I thought I’d give it a quick test for a term I coined, Gateway Blogging.
Google Blog Search results for gateway blogging. I just looooove being number one in the SERPS!
Ask blog search results for gateway blogging. Not number one as of now 
but I’m on the first page, at least.
Ice Rocket search results for gateway blogging. Hmm… I’m nowhere to be found. I guess that means Ice Rocket is no good! But wait… if you do an exact phrase search for gateway blogging, well, then I’m all over the page.
I have to confess I hardly ever use a blog search engine, but if you’ve been disappointed in Google Blog Search, here are a couple others to try:
Perhaps my experience is atypical, but from where I’m standing, Google Blog Search performed the best (if you’re number one in the results, that’s what that means, right?).
What has your experience been with Google Blog Search? Does it seem spammy to you?
Matthew Griffin | November 29th, 2007 at 9:50 am #
Honestly, I’ve had pretty good success with Google blog search. In my experience, there is some spam but it typically appears toward the end of the results. On the other hand, I have noticed quite a bit more spam on Technorati recently. I think that’s an issue they will need to address fairly soon.
Michael Martine (Post Author) | November 29th, 2007 at 10:30 am #
@Matthew: Yes, I agree about T’rati. That’s why I didn’t even bother to include it in the list of blog search engines.
Desty | December 4th, 2007 at 2:04 pm #
I just did a google blog search for “make money adsense” and the top two results were scrapped.
Michael Martine (Post Author) | December 4th, 2007 at 2:33 pm #
Desty, that’s the problem that the authors of the article I linked to were pointing out. I wouldn’t doubt you would see this for nearly any highly competitive keywords. I guess that’s just one more reason to coin your own terms: the head start.