Thing 3 - Blog Search Tools

I found the link to Blog Search Engines: The Complete Overview in the Search Engine Journal to be very helpful. Seeing the features at a glance and reading the simple summaries got me off to a good start on this topic. It appears that Google Blog Search may be more to my liking than Technorati.

Now for my search - how about chocolate truffles recipes? mmm.... I conducted my searches using Technorati and Google Blog Search and was quite surprised by the difference in the results.

Technorati gave me 14 results that were largely irrelevant. Only 2 of the 14 had actual recipes for chocolate truffles in them. One of the recipes had obscure ingredients, but I hit the jackpot with a recipe from Design Sponge Online for Balsamic Chocolate Truffles (with a hint of cherry). I think this one is a keeper. Sorting of results can only be done by date.


Then I searched using Google Blog Search and got 69,157 results. The first ten results all had good recipes in them. The second ten looked very promising. I am up to my neck in chocolate truffles recipes. I could have sorted by relevance or date, but I did not bother.


So I am off to Publix to buy dark chocolate, cocoa powder, etc.