I have an idea. Maybe you’ve had it too, maybe it’s out there already and I’m just clueless. I would love to have a search function, like Google Blog Search that will search by category. So… I could go and search all design blogs or all religion blogs, or knitting blogs, whatever, but it would be really cool to just do a blanket search of all blogs in a particular genre. Anyone know if that’s been done? If not, will you please?
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Truitt left a comment on August 24, 2006 at 5:58 pm | #
it would suck to be the guy who sits in front of a screen all day reading blog after blog so he can categprize them. only to go back to the same blog the next day to find a new post in a new genre.
Natalie left a comment on August 24, 2006 at 6:07 pm | #
Oh no, I didn’t mean each post is categorized the blogs themselves are categorized. It could even be a deal where each blogger submits their blog to specific categories themselves. The real work would be in building the search app to handle it all, but there shouldn’t be a need for any manual interference from an administrator. There are blog directories out there, but not very good ones that I’ve seen yet, where you can accurately get decent information from a search. Ideally you could click a box or type “design” and get search results for design blogs. Right now the only option is to use regular search and then you get non-designers talking about design and that just stinks sometimes when you want a designer’s perspective.
Oh, something else cool would be to search your feeds. I’ve had feed readers that could search posts that have come through my feed, but not the blogs themselves. That would be nice. Believe it or not, though GOOGLE’s feed reader doesn’t even search its own feed content!
Michael Montgomery left a comment on August 24, 2006 at 10:22 pm | #
A couple things that come to mind are the 9Rules sections/communities/whatever they called them, the subject matter “lenses” from Seth Godin’s Squidoo.com, specialized search engines from Rollyo.Doesn’t Technorati have something like this?By the way, do you have a list of good design blogs?
Natalie left a comment on August 24, 2006 at 11:34 pm | #
ooooooh, I forgot about rollyo, that might just work, almost. Okay, so here are some sites
These are some of my favorite designers who regularly write great relevant stuff.
sonspring.comgodbit.comandyrutledge.comlealea.net/blogwarpspire.commondaybynoon.comgraphicpush.com
Other design-related links
aiga.orgthinkvitamin.comalistapart.comparticletree.com
Jeremy left a comment on August 25, 2006 at 7:45 am | #
That is a great idea the current directories are not all inclusive and are also subjective.
There should be a meta tag, or something else, that lets the blog owner add categories for the search engine. Of course, there should also be a method of complaint when they didn’t catagorize themselves correctly.
Larry Tomlinson left a comment on August 26, 2006 at 2:51 pm | #
Actually, Natalie, there is a Google Blog Search :)
http://blogsearch.google.com/
Natalie left a comment on August 26, 2006 at 3:01 pm | #
Um, yeah, in case you missed it, here’s the post again
Love ya, try again! :)
Larry Tomlinson left a comment on August 26, 2006 at 3:35 pm | #
Doh! I swear, missionary candidate training has really fried my brain. Feel free to delete that embarassment :)
Natalie left a comment on August 26, 2006 at 3:42 pm | #
You’re allowed a brain fart now and then. :)
miklb left a comment on August 26, 2006 at 4:10 pm | #
I realize you are looking for more of a genre search than a keyword search, but I’ve found the advanced search at google blogs allows for a much narrower result.
Regarding your example of design blogs, are you wanting someone to confirm the topic before adding it to the search site? It seems it would almost have to.
Natalie left a comment on August 26, 2006 at 8:13 pm | #
You know, that wouldn’t be necessary, but you could just put a flag system in place, where if you caught a site that didn’t fit the category you could flag it for an admin to review.
Ilona left a comment on September 11, 2006 at 5:55 pm | #
Maybe this isn’t what you had in mind, but the game, Blogshares does a pretty good job of designating blogs by genre. The players themselves have a system of voting on categories that a particular blog fits into.