Google adds Blogsearch (Last one for the night)
CNET: Google News dips into meme tracking for blogs
Posted by Josh Lowensohn
Early Wednesday, Google updated its blog search tool to track news stories as they pop up on various blogs. Like Google News, the company is taking a product that began as something for search and making it a destination of its own.
What's different in blog search compared with news is that the front page shows how many outlets wrote about a story and how old in a very different manner. In blog search's case the number of sources is given a far higher prominence, and instead of tracking how fresh a story is, Google has chosen to display how long it's had the limelight.
For your amusement and edification, here is the link to the first page of results for Google Blogsearch. You can see what news stories have caught the attention of bloggers, and which blogs are attracting the most hits. For further amusment, I've also added the hits for entries on LiveJournal. Yes, Google's spiders are crawling through LJ as you read this. They're even crawling through my journal. I hope none of you suffer from virtual arachnophobia!