Blog searches

January 12, 2007 at 2:23 am Leave a comment

I’ve been asked by a couple of folks why certainly news items or web posts haven’t shown up on their Google Alerts. Here’s why: When you sign up for Google Alerts, beneath search terms is a box that has a drop down menu for the type of search. You can search news, blogs, web sites, groups or all of the above (comprehensive.) If you initially selected just news, then the only Google Alerts you will receive are the articles from the particular news sites that Google searches within the time period you suggest. However, if you change the type to comprehensive you’ll get the same number of emails that now includes web sites, blogs and news articles that mention your topic.

But, I have an alternative search tool just for blogs. Technorati.com (http://technorati.com) is a website that just searches blogs. Technorati was the first blog search site, it has a wide variety of ways to search blogs, and it was started by my friend Micah Sifty’s brother David. But, alas, I am not aware of a way to have the searches brought right into your inbox only onto your desktop if you’re using Google or Yahoo as your home page.

Happy searching, but beware, it’s addictive!