Well, I used to think Technorati was bad at searching the blogosphere for posts and the like. Then I discovered Blogger’s search tool<\/a>. Wow. It is bad. It really is that<\/strong> bad.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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

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<\/a> – pure garbage which appears to be there for the sole reason of getting links to other spam sites indexed by google.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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

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.<\/p>\n