Tuesday, November 11, 2008

Searching those blogs with Google

I began with a dry search on marketing libraries and guess what? I returned dry blog entries about Marketing! Heavens, can't possibly subscribe to one of those, my blog would keel over with boredom. So next search was library and superheroes. Ta da! Really intersting stuff popped up that looked as if it might be quite fun.

Then, scrolling down the page, nice Google asked if I wanted to subscribe to superheroes libraries - Google Blog Search, which I did and it sent me off to my Reader. It is rather handy that all these things are linked and help each other out, don't you think? At least with all these facilities connected together, you can keep track of all the information in one spot!

So I did another search on Library and movies and found this Blog http://bplmovies.blogspot.com/ It allows you to give opinions on movies and that is shared by all who look at the blog - do I want to subscribe? Possibly.


Ok, last search.......
Librarians and image. And lookee here: Librarians--The Image and the Myth http://stereotype-librarian.blogspot.com/. Now that sounds like my kind of thing. I will subscribe immediately.
This is a very handy tool, allowing searching across complete blogs and single entries. and of course the usual search function limitations of date and author searching are helpful in the usual ways. However as I am doing quite superficial searching I am sure that I am not encountering the pitfalls and problems that I read about in Jonothan Bailey's article.
(Ed note: Lunge 10) See also google reader search listed under my bloglist.

1 comment:

Petrina said...

You will find useful blogs when you search for blogs in a blog search engine, but I don't think it works as well as the creators of the search engine make it out. But obviously you found something that interests you.