I put both of these blog search engines on notice. One improved. The other didn’t.

I thought Google had a bunch of PhD’s who cared about search quality?

Here’s my test. Any blog search engine that includes http://news.naikmichel.com in its result set is outright crap.

That’s a splog (it’s an automated copy of Scobleizer). Get rid of it Google, please.

Technorati wins!

Here’s the two tests:

Technorati. No Naik Michel.
Google Blogsearch. Has Naik Michel.

But, Ask’s blogsearch really is the winner here. I didn’t need to ask it to get rid of good old Naik.

Sphere is bad too. No Naik, but it has a different splogger. BlueBoxSystem.com.

UPDATE: Whoa, just checked out IceRocket and didn’t find any splogs, but lots of interesting little features like hot links up at top. I gotta watch IceRocket more and see how it does against Technorati in other searches.

We have a good competition for once in the blog search space. I can’t wait for the day when automated copiers don’t get included in any search engines and trackback systems on blogs refuse their trackbacks.

What’s your favorite blog search? Why? Is your opinion changing?

Are you a YouTube viewer who likes short, weird, videos of things going into a blender? Or, do you like Ze Frank? I love his holiday series on getting on MySpace. Will it Blend has a lot more viewers and is getting talked about on a lot more blogs, though (three times today alone in the 350 blogs I watch).

I like the little duckie, though. Hey, how about if they’d try to blend a little duckie? Ahh, now THAT is LINKBAIT! Ze Frank’s icon vs. the blender. Yowza.

Well, they did get close to putting a little duckie in the blender for Christmas. Heheh.

…is the DLP one from Texas Instruments that’s running on Engadget HD.

Why? Cause it’s actually three separate ad units that surround the content and the same ad is on all three. Also, the pattern and movement caught my eye. It also matches other advertising they are doing elsewhere (I’ve seen their TV ad as well). Well executed ad campaign.