Thing #3: Blog Search Tooling around

I was overwhelmed by the Technorati site. It was just too much. I think their target audience is for people who actually want to market their blogs, but I honestly did not take the time to read the whole thing. I have a real job! This project is already taking more time than I thought it would. On an up note, I finally figured out that if I use Mozilla Firefox, instead of Internet Explorer I seem to have less technology problems.

I did do a search in the blogosphere under starting a nonprofit I have to say the return hits were not very useful, at least nothing I would pass on to patrons intending to get real information about starting their own nonprofit organizations. When I changed the search method by using quotes "starting a nonprofit" it shortened my return list, but not really any better results. I also looked under the Blogs menu and Blog Directory under the Business topics thinking I might find something relevant there. None of the topics there fit my particular need, though I must say at least some of the blogs listed there seemed to have more "authority."

I tried the Google Blog Search and it brought up some more relevant searches, but not necessarily blogs. It had a mix of websites and blogs, but I think I would prefer this to give to any patrons who needed this kind of information.

Lastly, I tried Ice Rocket Blog Search and the results were much like Google with more websites instead of blogs, but still more relevant than Technorati. I also discovered that I had to use the quotes for my multi-word search or type in the exact phrase on the advance search. I'd rather have a Hot Pocket than an Ice Rocket, unless they came up with a new cocktail and named it that... hmmm, I kind of like these Rocket Ice cubes!!!


For me, I don't think searching for blogs is the ultimate way to get information, but it is an option and it's another interesting way to link like-minded individuals together, but then again I don't know how different that would be just using regular search engines and adding the word "blog" or "blogs."

Fore... or is that #4?