11 Blog-Specific Search Engines

Many of the original search engines launched as blogging became popular are now gone, or else they have been placed in the hands of spammers.  However, a few remain and the search engine giant, Google, who launched their own in October of 2006.  Although almost every search engine includes blog results already incorporated into the results, the ones listed below are dedicated sub-searches of the main page.

It’ll be fairly easy to include your blog in these search engines, with a simple pinging setup or an RSS feed submission.  However, a few of these approach the definition of being a blog directory, which wasn’t my intention of highlighting.

The blog-dedicated search engines listed below help searchers discover new blogs and resources, as well as keeps them updated on their favorite bloggers.

1. Google Blog Search - blogsearch.google.com (Google-styled) or search.blogger.com (Blogger-styled)
   • About: Both search engines have the same search results, however they feature a slightly different interface.  Results include all blogs, in addition to those published through Blogger and results are continually updated in various languages.  Advanced search also provided.
   • Languages supported: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Korean, Brazilian Portuguese, Dutch, Russian, Japanese, Swedish, Malay, Polish, Thai, Indonesian, Tagalog, Turkish, Vietnamese, and others.Getting your blog listed: Follow instructions provided on the Blog Search Pinging Service page, but most blogs are automatically added using pinging services built into the blog platform.
   • Other info: Includes blogs dating to around June 2005, PR: 7 (Google version); 3 (Blogger version)



2. Ask Blogs Search - http://blogsearch.ask.com
   • About: Includes various options from the Bloglines data with the search technology of ExpertRank and Ask.com.  The results also feature the ability to show results sorted by date, popularity, or relevance, by posts, feeds, or news.  Binoculars shows a preview of the last five posts from a feed and you are able to easily subscribe and post the feeds/search results as you find them, for future reference.
   • Languages supported: Ask.com sites include U.S., Deutschland, Espana, France, Italia, Japan, Nederland, and UK.
   • Getting your blog listed: No specific instructions listed, likely automatic, generated form web results.
   • Other info: Launched in June 2006, PR: 8



3. Technorati Blog Search - search.technorati.com (separate page) or technorati.com/search (integrated version)
   • About: As the leader in blog tracking, Technorati allows you to keep track of blog news, pingbacks/trackbacks, and who favorites your blog, using the search engines provided.  Advanced search also available.
   • Languages supported: Worldwide, primarily targets U.S. market.
   • Getting your blog listed: You must first create an account or configure your publishing tool/ping configurations.
   • Other info: Currently tracking 100+ million blogs, PR: 4-5



4. Blog Search - blog-search.com
   • About: Blog Search is owned by Jayde and incorporated in 1998.  The blog search serves as a source for searching blogs, adding your own blog, or grabbing an RSS feed on the blog topic of your choice.  Includes more than 17,000 blogs.
   • Languages supported: Unknown, primarily English.
   • Getting your blog listed: You must become a member to submit your blog/RSS feed.
   • Other info: Catalogues blogs by category (directory-like), PR: 3



5. Ice Rocket Blog Search - icerocket.com
   • About: IceRocket is a privately owned and operated search engine has innovative blog search technology to search the blogosphere.  On the main page, you’ll find several areas to discover the top videos, movies, searches, and other various tools under the IceRocket name. 
   • Languages supported: Primarily English, as the company is based in Texas.
   • Getting your blog listed: Enter your URL to be indexed or include the ping address in your XML-RPC area of your weblog software.
   • Other info: PR: 6



6. Blog Search Engine - blogsearchengine.com
   • About: Blog Search Engine is a search engine of blogs, using the Google Blog Search bar.  It presents you with more than ten million blogs which are relevant toy our search queries.
   • Languages supported: Primarily English.
   • Getting your blog listed: Automatically added if you have been added to the Google Blog Search previously.
   • Other info: The site occasionally reviews other high quality blogs from around the world, PR: 4



7. Blogdigger - blogdigger.com
   • About: Blogdigger provides several areas of blog content search types such as by date, relevance, links, media, groups, and local.  A toolbar is also available for quicker access to the services.
   • Languages supported: Primarily English.
   • Getting your blog listed: No specific instructions provided.
   • Other info: PR: 7



8. Bloglines Blog Search - bloglines.com/search
   • About: Bloglines provides a number of free online services for searching, subscribing, creating, and sharing news feeds, blogs, and rich web content.  Their blog search allows you to search for posts, feeds, citations, or the web, in coordination with Ask.com’s search technologies.
   • Languages supported: Worldwide, focused on English blogs.
   • Getting your blog listed: Likely will already be included, but has more specific results if you have an account.
   • Other info: PR: 8



9. BlogPulse - blogpulse.com
   • About: BlogPulse is an automated trend discovery system for blogs, owned by Nielsen BuzzMetrics.  BlogPulse combines a search engine that analyzes and reports on daily activity in the blogosphere and includes a set of Buzz-Tracking tools, a look at world trends, daily blog stats, a trend search, a conversation tracker, blogger profiles, as well as a showcase of tools for bloggers.
   • Languages supported: Worldwide, once again focused on English blogs.
   • Getting your blog indexed: Blogs are indexed at most once per day, you must first add it on the submission page.
   • Other info: PR: 7



10. BlogScope - blogscope.net
    • About: BlogScope is an analysis and visualization tool for the blogosphere which is being developed as part of a research project at the University of Toronto.  It currently tracks more than twenty-one million blogs with 241.09 million posts.  It offers numerous unique features including popularity curves, identification of information bursts, related themes, and geographical search.
    • Languages supported: English, others also supported, except images use English text.
    • Getting your blog indexed: Blogs indexed semi-automatically as widgets may get your blog indexed more quickly.
    • Other info: PR: 5



11. Plazoo Blog Search - plazoo.com
    • About: Plazoo is a term that means “a place to search”, and allows you to search for content across multiple blog categories and displays the latest news on the main page form top news blogs.
    • Languages supported: (based in the Netherlands) - Czech, Dutch, English, French, German, Polish, and Russian
    • Getting your blog indexed: Submit your blog on the submission page.
    • Other info: PR: 6, more of a directory