Comments for Google Blog Search Sucks

Google Blog Search Sucks

2005-09-14T19:48:56Z

Why? Because they've only indexed my blog up till 26 May 2005! What's up with that?!

SearchEngineWatch has a good summary of opinions in the blogosphere. Put me down as 'Underwhelmed' please Danny (sub-category 'Peeved').

UPDATE: I've discovered the issue is that Google Blog Search indexes the RSS domain name, not the blog one. Because I have a Feedburner RSS feed, it's indexing feeds.feedburner.com/readwriteweb as the domain name for my blog. This is true of other Feedburner customers too - e.g. John Battelle's blog has the same issue. So I've contacted Google Blog Search about this.

Comment from J on 2005-09-14

2005-09-14T20:27:53Z

Weird that, this blog entry though, is the second hit on http://google.com/blogsearch?scoring=d&q=%22blog+search%22
Wich is linked from the Google Blog
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2005/09/
find-out-whats-happening-with-blog.html
That probably explains why you get more traffic and proves that their index is up to date. :)

Comment from Richard MacManus on 2005-09-14

2005-09-14T20:35:05Z

Ah, I see what's happening now - it's indexing this URL:

feeds.feedburner.com/readwriteweb

Because they index the RSS feed, it thinks Feedburner is my URL. Hmmmmm, I wonder if this affects other Feedburner customers?

Comment from Richard MacManus on 2005-09-14

2005-09-14T20:39:14Z

Yes it's doing the same with John Battelle's blog: http://battellemedia.com/

I'll contact Google and Feedburner about it.

Comment from Kingsley Idehen on 2005-09-14

2005-09-15T00:29:39Z

I have been waiting for the trigger event that brings light to an issue that has bugged me since 2003 re. most blogs. Why would you host your blog system using a service (or self managed installation) that doesn't have the ability to syndicate your posts using Atom or RSS at the very least? This is why I opted for a home grown Blog system that leverages our Virtuoso product. If you look at my blog you will notice that I can syndicate post and search results in all the major syndication formats. I can aggregate my syndications via OPML and OCS. I can even do the same thing with search results (and integrate transparently with Open Search). I wonder if you see the Web 2.0 angle in all of this? Its back to that "Point of Presence" thing again :-) Web 2.0 is about "Points of Presence" for syndicating content (using standard syndication formats), publishing executable endpoints (SOAP or RESTful style Web Services), and many other things to come (back to the future style!). Virtuoso (by design) is able to provide the kind of presence that I describe within domains of my choosing (something I believe everyone will need to do in the not too distant future). Google will need to get a little semantic in order for it to effectively connect feedburner to those blogs that depend on it for content syndication services.

Comment from Manuel Viloria on 2005-09-16

2005-09-16T09:32:38Z

That's also happening with me, so I've changed the Feedburner links on my site. I wonder how long it will take Google to update its Blog Search results page.

Comment from Richard MacManus on 2005-09-16

2005-09-16T10:36:58Z

Hi Manuel, Feedburner told me they've also contacted Google about the issue. I expect it will be fixed up pretty soon.