Search without blogs …

Google has unleashed the blog search … http://blogsearch.google.com/

Though there are already a lot of blog search engines such as Technorati and Blogdigger, Google’s foray does create a wave. Interestingly, Google unveiled the information about its blogsearch through a blog. Cool, uh!

Already web is messed up with every Tom, Dick and Harry creating his own web pages. The problem shifted from information seeking to information digging. The keywords churning out billions of page makes it simply impossible to get to the web page we want clearing out all the messy pages scattered everywhere. Agreed … Google did a good job in getting the most relevant info but still there’s a lot of crap that has degraded the search experience considerably. People have already started going to Library rather than search in the web.

Blogs made things worse. Blogs reduced the barriers to entry so that anyone can write anything … Even Lalu Prasad Yadav can write about Indian Economy and that bullshit might be read by great economists digging for some information… Blogs have increased the mess that we have to clear before getting to the right place.

But on the other side, Blogs also give information that other websites can’t provide. They are the voice of real customers. They are unedited logs of information. They come directly from mind.

Ok without boring much, let me complete this …My 2 cents is that blogs need a separate way of handling in search. They cannot be treated as other web pages. The search should identify whether the requested information needs blogs and act accordingly. Since Google has already identified the blogs, it can also come up with a search engine that searches only non-blog pages. This way Users can decide whether to include blogs or not in their search.