Irecently returned from giving two weeks of workshops on using the Web for research and was surprised at the number of people who were unfamiliar with blogs and their use for research purposes. One of the first questions I heard was, "How do I search blogs? That's not on Google, right?" Well, the 800-pound gorilla has made another hefty move, and now we can use Google to search at least some of the blogosphere. The tool (http://blogsearch.google.com) is still in beta, and as of mid-September, the blog-search option does not appear on the main Google search page, which as we all know, is the only search page most users see. Eventually word will trickle out, though, and the over-25-year-old set will finally discover what the buzz about blogs is all about.
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