Google Adds News-like Search Technology for Blogs

Google has Google News-ed its blog search function to make it easier for people to see blogs relevant to their search.

Google announced today that the company is adopting the same search technology it uses for Google News Blogs. Google Blog Search before was pretty straightforward — it was Google, for blogs. Google is touting the new Blog Search as a homepage makeover but we think they deserve a little more credit than that.

The updated Blog Search now groups related blog posts from across the web into groups, with separate categories for Top Stories, Politics, US, World, Business, Technology, Video Games, Science, Television, Movies, Entertainment and Sports. We tried out the service and so far, it seems pretty decent. One set back is that it’s only available in English but according to the official Google Blog, support for other languages will be added in the coming months.

Many are pegging Google Blog Search as a Techmeme killer and in our opinion, this is a little extreme. Sure, it’s pretty much a Techmeme that covers everything else, as well as technology, but we’re nearly positive Techmeme will keep it’s own user base next to Google’s.

Techmeme is dedicated to technology and already sees high traffic from those looking to keep up with the latest tech news. A lot of people will stick with Techmeme because they like the idea of all resources going toward indexing tech news. Not to say they won’t pick up Google Blog Search as well, but we doubt they’ll be ditching Techmeme just yet.

Check out blogsearch.google.com and let us know what you think.