Google’s search of blogs improves
Check this out: in my referer list today, I saw a search string from Google about Bush Regime playing cards. Well, my post about Bush regime playing cards hasn’t been on the front of my site in a while, so I wondered why the results were still in Google. Previous investigations of Google’s ability to index blogs indicated that it only reads the front page of this blog. It turns out that Google now points to my discussion group (which, if you haven’t checked it out already, presents all my blog posts and their comments in the form of a disucssion group) and uses the URLs with the dates in them, like Harvard’s Inktomi search engine does. The links are: Google. I tried it and it works. Put whatever you’re looking for into the box and add a term, like “scratchpad,” to narrow it to this blog. (Google doesn’t recognize site:blogs.law.harvard.edu/jkbaumga/, but site:blogs.law.harvard.edu gets close, so limiting the search to my blog’s domain isn’t quite possible yet.)
Nifty! Yea, Google!
July 31st, 2003 at 9:13 am
You can get to search just your site by using an “inurl” parameter instead of “site”: i.e. inurl:blogs.law.harvard.edu/jkbaumga