Technorati alternatives

August 3, 2006 2:14 PM

Technorati seems to be less and less accurate and comprehensive. Are there better alternatives for searching blog content?
posted by commander_cool to computers & internet (6 comments total)

Google Blog Search?
posted by mattbucher at 2:28 PM on August 3, 2006

Alas, Google Blog Search is overwhelmed with splog results.
posted by commander_cool at 2:47 PM on August 3, 2006

Icerocket
posted by Zed_Lopez at 2:52 PM on August 3, 2006

I use Google Blog Search, IceRocket, Sphere, and used to use PubSub in addition to Technorati, though lately they seem to be nonfunctional. Yahoo has a news/blogs search as well, as does MSN, and services like Intelliseek's BlogPulse offer more professional blog searching tools. And many people find the search built into Bloglines to be pretty effective; That's what powers Ask's blog search.
posted by anildash at 5:04 PM on August 3, 2006 [1 favorite]

I haven't used the newish Bloglines search too much yet, but it seems promising. Not only can you do a general blog search, but if you have a Bloglines account, you can search within your feeds.
posted by gennessee at 6:06 PM on August 4, 2006

Wow, I totally missed the last half of anildash's post. Sorry guys.
posted by gennessee at 6:08 PM on August 4, 2006