{"id":433,"date":"2005-09-16T00:55:25","date_gmt":"2005-09-16T00:55:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/archives\/433"},"modified":"2005-09-16T00:55:25","modified_gmt":"2005-09-16T00:55:25","slug":"google-blog-search","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/archives\/433","title":{"rendered":"Google blog search"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been wondering when Google would get around to this. A few days ago they announced <a href=\"http:\/\/blogsearch.google.com\/\">Google Blog Search<\/a>, which indexes blog entries based on RSS or Atom feeds.<\/p>\n<p>Google&#8217;s playing catch-up to smaller services like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/\">Technorati<\/a>, but seem to have scooped Yahoo! and MSN, both of whom have been rumored to be coming out with an RSS-feed search &#8220;any day now&#8221; for months (Yahoo! even briefly revealed a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.micropersuasion.com\/2005\/07\/yahoo_unveils_b.html\">test page<\/a> before they realized it wasn&#8217;t being firewalled properly).<\/p>\n<p>One feature Google gets right is that every page includes a link to subscribe to an RSS or Atom feed on that query, essentially turning any search phrase into an aggregator. <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/\">Technorati<\/a> has something similar with their <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/watchlist\/\">watchlists<\/a>, but you have to create an account and go through their page to create a new standing query. Google just creates the contents on the fly &mash; a big win in terms of ease-of-use since you&#8217;re likely to most want a standing query after you&#8217;ve just done the search as a regular one.<\/p>\n<p>(Discovered via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonmonthly.com\/archives\/individual\/2005_09\/007123.php\">Political Animal<\/a>, of all places, but there are also announcements at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sixapart.com\/pronet\/weblog\/2005\/09\/google_launches.html\">SixApart<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/battellemedia.com\/archives\/2005_09.php\">John Battelle&#8217;s Searchblog<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been wondering when Google would get around to this. A few days ago they announced <a href=\"http:\/\/blogsearch.google.com\/\">Google Blog Search<\/a>, which indexes blog entries based on RSS or Atom feeds.<\/p>\n<p>Google&#8217;s playing catch-up to smaller services like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/\">Technorati<\/a>, but seem to have scooped Yahoo! and MSN, both of whom have been rumored to be coming out with an RSS-feed search &#8220;any day now&#8221; for months (Yahoo! even briefly revealed a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.micropersuasion.com\/2005\/07\/yahoo_unveils_b.html\">test page<\/a> before they realized it wasn&#8217;t being firewalled properly).<\/p>\n<p>One feature Google gets right is that every page includes a link to subscribe to an RSS or Atom feed on that query, essentially turning any search phrase into an aggregator. <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/\">Technorati<\/a> has something similar with their <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/watchlist\/\">watchlists<\/a>, but you have to create an account and go through their page to create a new standing query. Google just creates the contents on the fly &mash; a big win in terms of ease-of-use since you&#8217;re likely to most want a standing query after you&#8217;ve just done the search as a regular one.<\/p>\n<p>(Discovered via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonmonthly.com\/archives\/individual\/2005_09\/007123.php\">Political Animal<\/a>, of all places, but there are also announcements at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sixapart.com\/pronet\/weblog\/2005\/09\/google_launches.html\">SixApart<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/battellemedia.com\/archives\/2005_09.php\">John Battelle&#8217;s Searchblog<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}