Google Blog Search was a specialized service of Google used to search blogs. It was discontinued in May 2011. The Blog Search was "the first major search engine to offer full-blown blog and feed search capabilities".[1] It was released in 2005. The bots appeared to be faster than the standard Googlebot, because updates to blogs often become available within hours instead of weeks taken by Googlebot default. The Blog Search searches were done identically to the Google Search by typing your search terms in the search field and seeing the most relevant results related to the topic. The Blog Search looked at various services in the world of blogs like Blogger, LiveJournal, and Weblog. For some time it was possible to force Google to access and search the Blogsearch database by manually formatting the URL in your browser's address bar.[2] But in March 2016, Google also took away this access.[3]
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- ^ "Google Kills Blogsearch - But Here's How You Can Force Google to Display it". Archived from the original on 2014-08-18. Retrieved August 15, 2014.
- ^ "Google Kills Blogsearch (Again) - But This Time They REALLY Mean It". Archived from the original on 2016-04-01. Retrieved March 28, 2016.