(2003-05-20) Winer Blog Search

Dave Winer has a WebLog search function will pulls from Google but then cross-checks against his blog-entry database to get the exact relevant piece (and then he sorts by date, rather than relevance/pagerank). Unfortunately his Google App Key has already run out for the day (his demo searches still work because he caches the results).

• Note this depends on Google having hit all the pages you're interested in. And it will miss brand-new pages that Google hasn't gotten to yet (my site hasn't been updated in 9 days).

• Hmm, the idea seems to be to search only your own blog?

• Then why not do so yourself directly? I suppose because Google lets you do a multi-word AND search, rather than a straight substring search (like most low-end functions offer - something fancy like Lucene offers much more); but his demo's are so simple they don't demonstrate this. Or am I missing something?

• On this wiki you get a straight substring search with pretty results - use the form at the upper right (start your search string with a '!', for reasons you don't have to care about for now - it will change in a few weeks).