Finding blogs is getting easier everyday thanks to the enhanced blog search engine tools available online. This directory provides a list of blog search engines to help you find blogs.
The Google Blog Search function is an excellent way to find blogs. You search using keywords just as you would for a standard Google search, and you can sort the results by date.
Technorati tracks over 100 million blogs and over 250 million pieces of
tagged social media. That means Technorati provides extremely comprehensive blog search results. Users can see which blogs and blog posts are most popular in several categories at a glance and conduct a variety of searches with very current results. While Google's Blog Search might not provide the most current information in the blogosphere, Technorati will.
Sphere is a great blog search engine that provides users the opportunity to sort results by time and relevance and also provides links to see related content to your search. One of the best features is one that allows users to view their search history.
Ice Rocket offers some very unique and helpful features. First, you can enter your keywords then search within blogs, the web, MySpace, news or images. Second, you can view the popularity of your keyword search using the Ice Rocket Blog Trends Tool. This can certainly help with a blogger's marketing and
monetization planning.
Bloglines is a blog search engine and a
feed reader. It provides features that allow users to search and subscribe to news feeds and blogs. Users can search for posts, feeds or citations.
Blogpulse offers a wide variety of tools to help users find blogs and information including Buzz-tracker, trends search, blogger profiles, conversation tracker and more.
BlogCatalog is a social blog directory where anyone can search for information from blogs that have been submitted to the catalog.
MyBlogLog is another social blog directory where registered users can search for information from blogs that have been submitted to the directory. MyBlogLog is owned by
Yahoo.
BlogHer is an example of a blog directory where users can find a variety of blogs on specific topics or with something in common. For BlogHer, all of the blogs in the blog directory are written by women.
