I may be a little late coming to this party, but Google has introduced Google Blog Search, which limits searches to just blogs (well, in theory, anyhow). The most interesting thing about this, to me, is that GBS provides the search results for your terms as Atom and RSS feeds.
It seems that Google is leveraging blog feeds to get structured data, and monitoring ping sites for timely updates. [...]
I have a lot of family in the areas affected by Hurricane Katrina. Fortunately, my closest relatives — my mother, father, step-father, grandmother, plus some aunts, uncles, and first cousins — were not in the most heavily affected areas. [...]
There’s no telling how this post is going to affect my Google ads or my status in certain website blocking systems, but here we go…
We’ve all seen television commercials for Viagra, Cialis and other “male performance enhancement” medications. [...]
Whoops, I forgot to rename that previous post, since I didn’t actually post the round up. So, this post will be the real round up… Sort of. . [...]
Both Google and Yahoo! have announced APIs for their mapping services. I’ve already gotten a developer key for the Google service. But it doesn’t support address searches, only lat/lon coordinates. So I’m thinking about applying for a Yahoo! key, using their service for geocoding (translating from street addresses to coordinates), then using Google’s mapping interface with all of its Ajaxy goodness.
I don’t know what I plan to actually do with this stuff, or when I’d find time to do it. [...]
There is now a dedicated site for information about microformats: microformats.org
I’m working on a movie review using the hReview format. I’m hoping that we’ll see one of the big search engines start correlating microformat data soon. [...]
Tantek Çelik has a whole gaggle of microformat links over on his site:
Basically, microformats are just organically grown rules to add application-specific semantics to existing XHTML documents. [...]
Google Sightseeing is an index of interesting sites (sights?) around the world, as seen by the satellites that Google Maps uses. For example, places like The Grand Canyon, Niagra Falls, or the St. [...]
Googlebomb: Popup Blockers
Has your blog been spammed with ads for a Popup Blocker for Internet Explorer?