Thing 3: Blog Search Tools

After reading Technorati's State of the Blogosphere, my eyes hurt. Not sure I needed all those statistics about blogging. Statistics can be used to prove anything so I guess the conclusion the world is blogging but what percentage of the world? Seems to me that those that blog are do a lot of it which skews the statistics of how many people actually blog.

And blog--what a word! who thought that would be appealing?

I tried searching on all four blog search engines. I now know there's a person with my name that invented the Dump-A-Matic, a device that turns any pick-up truck into a dump truck in a matter of minutes. I'm not sure what I'm going to do with that information but he's very popular on the blog scene.
Google gave me the most hits (of course), Technorati's list seems more relevant; BlogPulse gave a scarce half dozen and nothing about Mr. Dump-a-Matic; and Bloglines had 4 results. In looking at them all: Google--there's nothing to look at; Technorati--obviously wants to be the leader in everything about blogs; BlogPulse has some cool tools and is coming from a business analysis perspective; and Bloglines is pushing its blog aggregator (I'm going to return to that feature later and use it).