Thing 3 - Blog Search Tools

Well, to be honest, I found the web search tools to be about as useful as Google or Yahoo. That is to say, unless you really know what you are looking for or are familiar with the ins and outs of the engine, finding what you really want can be a chore.

For example, I typed in RC Cars in Technorati and found a lot of sites... unfortunately most were not about RC Carts. This is typically of most search engines due to false indexing and tagging. Unscrupulous website owners and bloggers often use fake tags or indexing to attract visitors or to increase where the fall in search engine listings. In order to circumvent this you have to be very specific in what you are looking for.

Of course on the upside, sometimes generic search yield little gems that you might never of otherwise found. For folks really into blogging or reading other's blogs this can be fantastic. I tend to not read too many "personal" blogs. I really don't care about the minutia of other people's daily lives; it's too mundane. When ever I stumble on to something like that or get sucked in to reading one, I tend to leave Dr Phil comments along the lines of, "So I see that you hate your job... well get a new job!" or "Well I see that your wife if cheating on you... well get a new wife!". I just don't have tolerance for people complaining about things in their life they have the power to change. I tend to gravitate toward blogs such as the Consumerist or Failblog. I want bits of useful insight or just plan humor.

Part of the problem with search engines in general is the sheer nature of the work they have to do. Growth on the Internet is exponential. Indexing and categorizing has to be a nightmare. I don't envy the people that develop tools to do this as it seems a loosing battle to me. At the same time I admire the effort they put in this so that people like me can search for things as mundane as RC Cars and find the info we need... eventually at least.