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Near-instant link: results from Google (blogs, that is)
Did you know that Google Blog search has its own separate link: command? Did you also know that you can get near-real-time link information from it? I didn’t until today.
Yesterday, I had a forum thread go popular on Digg. This morning, I set up a Google alert using link:www.myforumname.com so that I could track links that may have resulted from the Digg. I was surprised this evening to receive an email from Google Alerts listing 8 brand spanking new links to that thread.
My first thought was, “Wow! That was quick!” After a bit of discussion about it with my buddy, Michael, we realized that it was coming from Blog search only, and also that it was defaulting to the linkdomain: command. That in itself is pretty cool, but the fact that we don’t have to wait months to see them via an update is even cooler. At least some of those links listed were posted TODAY. Google not only picked them up quickly, but allowed me to see them that quickly. Wow.
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If you are the first to "discover" any of my posts in StumbleUpon, one of the following categories would probably be the most appropriate to place it into. You don't have to choose one of these, of course, but based on what I usually write about, there's a good chance any of my posts will fall into one of these categories.
Business * Computers * Computer Graphics * Computer Hardware * Computer Security * Databases * Ecommerce * Internet * Internet Tools * Linux/Unix * Marketing * Search * Self Improvement * Web development * Weblogs(Blogs) * Windows * Writing
March 31st, 2007 at 4:10 pm
Yeah, it’s a neato feature …
link: and site: will both return results from feeds in Blog Search.
The Google AJAX Blog Bar can also send you visitors from Blog Search, or it has me anyway.
December 27th, 2008 at 4:00 pm
Google blog search isn’t such a good service. I don’t know, it may be working for you but last time I search it only came up with results that are not blogs. It returned company websites and so on. I only wanted free in formations and blogs.