Trends in Blog Searching

LLRX.com: " To use Google to find information across blogs, enter your keywords then ~blog inurl:archives. Using blog and archives is somewhat redundant but using archives alone retrieves more newspaper articles and using ~blog alone works and gets more hits but with less precision because “log” is apparently a synonym for blog. For example, a search on hubble maintenance yields forums in the second group of hits, and the first blog in the third group of hits. The search hubble maintenance inurl:archives yields six blogs out of the first ten hits. The search hubble maintenance ~blog yields seven blogs out of the first ten hits. The search hubble maintenance ~blog inurl:archives yields ten out of ten, and only 54 hits total. Ari Paparo posted a large list of blog search engines on his blog (http://www.aripaparo.com/archive/000632.html). Bloogz has some very nice advanced search features. Waypath is one of the few full text blog search engines. If you need to do a very precise search, use Feedster." All this via anildash.