An important feature of Google’s new Blog Search to be aware of is, as Niall Kennedy and Damien Mulley have noted, it is not really a Blog Search - it is a Feed Search.
This may sound like semantics but there is an important distinction - many bloggers only publish summaries of their posts in their feeds (I’m looking at you Damien and you too Bernard!) - they will now be penalised as Google will only index the summaries of their posts - not the entire post.
Another reason to publish full feeds!
Btw, kudos to Google - they updated their index on this blog just over an hour after I posted that it was well out of date - they are obviously listening.
It also means that non-blog-feeds are picked up as well. And in fact they have fully indexed the newsfeeds from my corporate webpage.
It’s nice to see us immediately on #1 spot for our “money terms” in blogsearch too.
Michael,
thanks for pointing that out - Damien did mention it in the post I linked to but it merits stating explicitly and i forgot to do that in my post - d’oh!
As Damien said:
Tom,
have you seen this ?
http://particletree.com/features/an-argument-for-small-business-blogging
Walter
Walter,
I have now! And while it is a good article, I can’t help but wonder what it has to do with Google’s Blog Search!