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What are blog search engines used for and by whom are they used?
Home » Blogs » Blog Search Engines » What are blog search engines used for and by whom are they used?Posted by Your Guide on July 17, 2006 7:12 PM
Blog search engines have sprung up from both the makers of regular Internet search engines as well as those dedicated to the sole purpose of developing blog search webpages for Internet users. The producers of blog search engines are big believers of self-publishing, the genre that blogging falls into. Blog searches allow the writers of blogs to find other blogs of similar vein, blogs of specific content which they can link to, and also enable them to discover which blogs link to their own. The readers of blogs use blog search engines to find blogs of interest or of specific topic for further exploration. Blog readers can find this kind of information on the world wide web by regular Internet search engines as well, but the blog search engine simplifies the process and produces more exact results.
Blog search engines allow the user to find blogs on specific subjects hosted by multiple blog hosting sites, not just the one the user is also a member of. The blog search engines are updated on a fairly consistent basis giving the searcher the most up-to-date data available and allows the user to search for blogs in various languages.
Some blog search engines must have blogs added to their site manually by the owners of the blogs, while others are able to scan all existing blogs, much like Google can scan all existing web pages for content.
Search engines for blog users and readers have become important because in the world of weblogs, importance it deemed by the number of links a blog receives. Much the way it worked in high school, the coolest blogs are the ones with the most "friends," which is determined in great part by how many websites like a certain blog well enough to list it in the blogroll and/or link to it repeatedly throughout subsequent blog entries.
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