I love the new Google Blogsearch and hope we will soon see this in other languages too.

Ben
http://wistia.com
Wistia, Making Video Productive

True, but even old can become new again under the right leadership. They're down, but they're not out quite yet. There's still a standing 8 count.

1.Users will benefit as the talent of Google will continue to role out robust products and services.

2. Google's profit drivers will continue to feel pressure as the market communities change and provide viable alternatives to AdWords. For example I have one client spending $1200 per month on AdWords with average cost per click being $6.00. Three weeks ago we did a couple videos and I helped him optimize those on his site, etc. On average in about 12 days those videos have been viewed 220 times at $0 cost per click and yesterday a client flew from Germany to Florida to conclude on a deal. Exposure and closure is outstanding.

Steve Pohlit
http://stevepohlit.com

Also, why do people (and especially Marshall ;-) keep ragging on Technorati? It's great at what it does, index blogs. I use it far more than Google Blog Search.

I dunno, the link on google main page is one of the ones in the 'more' drop down list. Admittedly even that would get more links than most of us could dream of, being on google.com. But still I don't think it's something most people think to use when searching.

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And here are some similar sites we are working on

http://www.techofy.com
http://www.blogofy.com
http://www.zoppr.com

i have the same habit for memeorandum and techmeme.

i won't change.

gabe should keep a unique voice and experience. which i think it still has

I'd say Techmeme needed to take funding and expand into a proper network about 24 months ago. Or, he needed to have gotten acquired somewhere along the way like blogdigger and the others. It will be interesting to see if the memeorandum family will drop off sharply, stagnate, or find a way to muster growth. Just my $0.02, from someone that dabbled in the memetracking space before giving up in frustration (all respect due to gabe for crafting a great product).

I guess maybe this will finally spur tailrank to shut down. Just checked out tailrank and its down for a "db upgrade." Hmmm.

The reason why I am looking forward to Googles approach? They are one of the few services in the world to get internationalization right. I am sorry, but I could care less about the daily blantering of US Politics and if I had a snooze button on every time somebody on a tech blog goes politics I'd be happy to use it.

Techmeme has 'my' niche, so it will stay my first choice because it provides somethings others dont - a big fast visual clue. For the rest of the topics - most of them will never be done in a Techmeme way - it will be good news until the spammers get into it even more.

Some checks shows that spammers are highly in it already and I assume google takes this as a natural approach to Websites / News and now blogs.

For me, Techmeme is the closest thing to an online newspaper. It's not just the information there or the feeds it aggregates - it's the interface. Techmeme organizes stories so well, and it's design of varying sizes and nested links is easy to scan.

Then there's the new Google Blogsearch. It's one big list of stories, each with a list of links underneath, each of which include of whole string of words from the individual headlines. This may be great for doing a search (hence the name), but not for everyday browsing of tech stories, imho.

I leave Techmeme open as my first tab in Opera all day, and check it periodically as it autorefreshes. It's one of my favorite sites, and I've never been able to keep up with tech news more easily. In my opinion, Techmeme's organized design beats any newsreader or list of lists when it comes to tracking the news overall.

Google found only 14 to 17 found posts as of 10/2/2008 about the "Amazon EC2 running Microsoft Windows Server" topic and mine wasn’t one of them, although it appeared on Techmeme. What’s really strange is no entry for Werner Vogels’ "Expanding the Cloud: Microsoft Windows Server on Amazon EC2" post of 9/30/2008 or Jeff Barr’s "Coming Soon: Amazon EC2 With Windows Amazon Web Services" blog post of 10/1/2008, which are the authoritative posts for the topic.

For more details, see the end of http://oakleafblog.blogspot.com/2008/10/amazon-adds-sql-server-to-oracle-and.html.

--rj

I.e., it's not an algorithm or popularity based listing, which is hit or miss. In that sense, Google Blog Search is more like Technorati (and in some ways Digg, Delicious, etc.). GBS might be better for searching blogs than regular Google search, but I wouldn't call it direct competition to Techmeme.