So finally, Google has launched a search engine that focuses on RSS feeds, and actually threads blogs correctly. Took them long enough!<\/p>\n
At any rate, the new blog search engine<\/a> bases its crawling on RSS<\/a> and Atom<\/a> feeds, which nearly all decent blogs (and even quite a few non-blogs) provide as a standard feature.<\/p>\n From what I can tell, it works quite well<\/a>.<\/p>\n Personally, I’d like to see this kind of crawling integrated as an option into the standard Google interface, the one that millions of users go to blindly when they want to search something. Only the really savvy bother to specifiy if they want to search images, newsgroups or blogs; the rest just type a phrase into the search bar and expect to see results.<\/p>\n For what it’s worth, Google isn’t ahead of the curve on this one. Quite a few<\/a> search engines specifically catering to blogs<\/a> have been around for quite some time prior to this launch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Google launches a Blog search engine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gadgets-widgits-and-whatzits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}