Blogger search:
Old news, since I wasn't around to post this yesterday, but just in case you missed it: Google has finally started to search blogs. You can do it through the Google site or thru Blogger. It's in beta, haven't tried it yet, but Jeff Jarvis thinks the search is a little strange so far. Seems it finds a lot of Blogger spam blogs. SearchEngineWatch discusses the search.
To see what bloggers are saying about this, of course it's worth a Google blog search (suggested by Dave Winer).
Speaking of Blogger spam, I started getting comment spam on my Blogger photoblog within the last week. I enabled a keyword comment login that should eliminate it. No sign on this blog or the other blogs yet, although I think it may be showing up on the obsolete Herald blog.....
Old news, since I wasn't around to post this yesterday, but just in case you missed it: Google has finally started to search blogs. You can do it through the Google site or thru Blogger. It's in beta, haven't tried it yet, but Jeff Jarvis thinks the search is a little strange so far. Seems it finds a lot of Blogger spam blogs. SearchEngineWatch discusses the search.
To see what bloggers are saying about this, of course it's worth a Google blog search (suggested by Dave Winer).
Speaking of Blogger spam, I started getting comment spam on my Blogger photoblog within the last week. I enabled a keyword comment login that should eliminate it. No sign on this blog or the other blogs yet, although I think it may be showing up on the obsolete Herald blog.....
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