Well, I used to think Technorati was bad at searching the blogosphere for posts and the like. Then I discovered Blogger’s search tool. Wow. It is bad. It really is that bad.

Now, in the past we here at WhyDontYou have ranted about the problems with blog indexes like Technorati (mainly that unless you are a major company or can public relations yourself to get a billion back links you will never show up), but blogger seems to be drowned under the weight of spam.

Out of curiousity, I did a search for “Open University” Technology Web Design, as I know there is a fairly good blog on TT380 and wondered if there were any more.

Sadly, if I only had Blogger search I would never know. I wouldn’t even know the TT380 blog existed. At the time of my search, the first page of results was almost entirely spam. There are a couple of “real posts” (not exactly blogs though) followed by pages like this – http://bonjourarraonsons77327. blogspot.com/ 2006/09/ soccer-team-strategies-with-3-4-3.html – pure garbage which appears to be there for the sole reason of getting links to other spam sites indexed by google.

It is insane. Blogger is powered by Google. Given the difficulty in getting first page results on Google, you would think this applied to Blogger as well. Obviously not.

Still, in my opinion google is getting less and less relevant now. I find http://uk.yahoo.com produces more, worthwhile, search results and pages I design get indexed there faster. Is this the dawn of a new Yahoo?

Anyway, on a more serious note – the TT380 site is excellent. Well worth a visit and a shame it isnt higher placed on the Search Engine.