Entries from Search Engine Roundtable tagged with 'blog search'

A WebmasterWorld thread has discussion around how Google seems to consider any web site that contains an RSS feed, as a blog. In fact, several webmasters are complaining that their web sites are showing in the Google Universal Results, under...

Posted on July 7, 2009 8:43 AM

Google Blog Search announced the addition of a few features. The most noticeable changes are to the Google Blog Search home page, where Google now shows the top hot queries and the latest blog posts from popular blogs. Here is...

Posted on July 6, 2009 8:14 AM

A few weeks ago, we reported that Google released a major blog search update. That update fixed the issue with Google Blog Search finding content in the blogroll and thus showing irrelevant search results. It directly impacted the "blogroll detector"...

Posted on April 14, 2009 7:57 AM

The much awaited update to the Google Blog Search blogroll detector algorithm has finally been pushed through. An updated Google Groups thread has Googler, Jeremy Hylton saying: We have launched a ranking change that reduces the number of results that...

Posted on March 27, 2009 1:23 AM

Two weeks ago, we reported that Google Blog Search To Test New Link Command Features Next Week. Well, it has now been postponed a bit. An updated Google Groups thread has Googler, Jeremy Hylton saying this has to be pushed...

Posted on March 10, 2009 8:53 AM

Since November 2008, Google Blog search's link command has been scanning too much information, including blogrolls. Since then, Google vowed to fix the blogroll issue with the link command back in early December. At the end of December, Google said...

Posted on February 26, 2009 8:28 AM

A WebmasterWorld thread reports one member noticing receiving images in his Google Alerts from Google Blog search. It seems to be an extension of how Google News shows images near some articles. But in this case, this searcher is saying...

Posted on February 10, 2009 9:45 AM

A Google Groups thread has confirmed reports from Jeremy Hylton of Google, that Google blog search, in some cases, has issues finding and returning new blog posts in Google Blog Search. Jeremy explained that earlier on, there was an issue...

Posted on January 21, 2009 7:53 AM

In early November, I reported an issue with Google Blog Search scanning blogrolls, which was then confirmed later on. The confirmation told us that Google would fix the issue, where Google Blog Search would continue to index and use more...

Posted on December 22, 2008 7:50 AM

About a month ago, we reported Google Blog Search Link Command Now Scanning Blogroll Links. In short, using a link:www.seroundtable.com would not only return links from the content of the article, but also return links from the navigational elements. So...

Posted on December 3, 2008 8:06 AM

Every week day, I put together, what I call the Daily Link Find on my personal blog. It basically is a summary of links to my blog posts I find for the day. I find most, if not all, the...

Posted on November 5, 2008 7:53 AM

Everyone is talking about the announcement that Google Blog Search looks more like Google News, the home page and works a bit more like Techmeme. Danny has a quick post on it, ReadWriteWeb calls it a Techmeme Killer, but Matt...

Posted on October 2, 2008 8:07 AM

Do you hate how WordPress and other blog platforms immediately add nofollow to any links in your comments -- including (and especially) your name? Well, Search Engine Roundtable Forums member inertia created a very cool Google Custom Search Engine that...

Posted on June 26, 2008 9:21 AM

I have been watching a thread started by Barry W. at Cre8asite forums named Blogsearch, Google's Neglected Property back about a month or so ago. Since then, I have been trying to find a good blog search engine to use...

Posted on November 26, 2007 7:07 AM

A DigitalPoint Forums thread reports that Google has also done a backlink update recently. Now, I think most people in this forum thread are talking about the link:www.domain.com command when searched at Google.com. That backlink command is known to just...

Posted on November 1, 2007 6:58 AM

Over at Cre8asite Forums, moderator Barry Welford has spotted an anomaly with the results of Google Blog Search when compared to Google's relevant search results. Barry asks what drives the poor quality of these search results. Perhaps it is the...

Posted on October 22, 2007 9:06 AM

If you go to Yahoo!, I bet you'll have a had time trying to use Yahoo!'s Blog Search feature today. Well, at least until it goes back online. Try doing a search at blog.news.search.yahoo.com, it is gone! Yes, it has...

Posted on August 28, 2006 7:25 AM