Google Blog Search - Critical Response

Critical Response

The following aspects of the Google Blog Search service have been met with praise: its ability to index new posts quickly, the option to sort results both "by date" and "by relevance", and the "Advanced search" options which allows for more specific searches. The "Frequently-Asked Questions list" is seen as covering the basics quite well. On the other hand, the "related blogs" service has been criticized due to it omitting some of the more prominent niche blogs from searches, including defunct blogs, and spam blogs. Filtering spam has been cited as a challenge for the technology, as there have been cases of spam posts appearing in the blogs and posts that the technology locates and identifies. In a review by Duncan Riley of the Blog Herald, the service was critiqued based on different criteria: search (which was given a "B"), numbers (which was given a "C-"), and size (which was given a "D"). Although the version tested was a beta test, the reviewer was disappointed as "you’d expect something really good from Google". He compared the usefulness of the technology to "Technorati", except "with half as many results but without the error messages". In other reviews, the service's speed has been commented on in a favourable light, one such review describing it as "freaking fast".