Thing 3: Blog Search Tools

I searched “teen library programming” in technorati and google blog search. The technorati results seemed to be less relevant to the search. Some of the results were from Yalsa and other library related blogs but at least 5 seemed completely unrelated to libraries. The google results seemed more relevant with some results from library systems. Google seemed a lot easier to use but that could be because I use google to search the web. The main google results page has options to limit by date published. The date limiting seems to be missing in technorati (or at least I didn’t see it in the advanced search or on the results page.) The technorati search results page allows filtering by language, authority, posts and tags among others. Both blog searches have their useful and not so useful features and since there didn’t seem to be a lot of overlap in the results, it would be good to use both to find blogs.