Google Blog Search Module

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One of my new favorite modules

I love to make a lens better by using google blogsearch. The content changes - which makes your lens more interesting.

As an added bonus you get an easy way to check out what other people are saying about a topic you are interested in. Which means you can go and join the conversation :)

Finding the google blogsearch module 

  1. Go to Add Modules, like you do with every module you want to find

  2. Go to Search (A-Z)

  3. Find the G for Google (not B for Blogs)

  4. Click Google Blog Search


That's it. No short cuts to this one.

Adding Blogs Search to your lens. - the options 

Do check out your options. To make google blog search search blogs you will have to set the settings to blogs. The default is news.

The default setting is to only have one result, and to only show the headline.

I usually prefer to set the settings to:

  • 3 results (4 is the maximum)

  • include descriptions

  • update frequency: once a day (only with topics with a lot of news does updating more often make sense)

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Blog search in google blog search 

Yes - it's self evident - you can use google blog search to search blogs... :)
Casting Calls in San Diego | AuditionFree.com
Use your favorite search engine such as Google or Yahoo to and do a search for castings and auditions in San Diego, you will be surprised at the amount of sites that have information with up to date casting calls and auditions. ...
Official Google Blog: This week in search 11/27/09
For those of you who who plan to head to the movies this week, we've launched a mobile version of Google Search results for movies, making it even easier to find the latest holiday blockbuster playing in your area. ...
Official Google Blog: The new Black (Friday)
You can find these sites easily with a search on Google for [black friday sites]. Retailers are increasingly responding to these deal-seeking shoppers. In fact, 60% of retailers report that they are increasing their promotional efforts ...
Health And Nutrition Business – The Next Trillion Dollar Industry ...
The other step for you to make is to make web site content that is search engine optimized. In other words it basically means that the higher the keyword in the search engine list, the higher your web site will be to the top of the list ...
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News search in google blog search 

It's the default setting that google blog search will return results from the news. Don't ask me why. Anyhow: the following is the result from searching the latest news about 'google blog search'.
Google Puts Movie Search Service on Mobile Devices
... wrote on The Official Google Blog. "So over the past few years, we've blended videos, images, maps and more into the search results on Google.com. ...
These Are NOT Your Grandfather's Google Search Ads
As a result Google is making some adjustments to their paid ads presentation. The official Google blog tells us. Text is often useful, but sometimes videos ...
Microsoft Fixing Bing's Chinese Search 'Bug'
... certain sensitive information from our search results," Andrew McLaughlin, senior policy counsel for Google, wrote on the official Google blog on Jan. ...
Bing Now a Serious Challenger to Google
Microsoft provides a few examples on its Bing blog. Search for "bmi," for instance, and Bing displays Wolfram Alpha's body mass index calculator at the top ...
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So - what search term do you put in? 

Some google search tips I use a lot

Google blog search works just like ordinary google search. This means that it's pretty tolerant of what you type.

Generally - for your lenses - you just want the theme of your lens.

You can try out the following variations. Say your subject is 'Blue Ribbons'...

  1. Type "blue ribbons"
    This will mean that only blogs using the two words in exactly that order, with nothing in between will show up.
  2. Type blue ribbons
    This will turn up blogs which might be talking about ribbons on some blue dress they were making - not necessarily using BLUE ribbons, just something about blue is on the page.


I usually get good results without the quotes, but if that gives you results that don't fit your theme - trying the quotes just might fix it.

Using the google blog search module to showcase your blog 

Sometimes you just want your latest blogposts to show up on a lens. You can use the RSS module for that, but the blog search module will work as well.

You do the following to get your own blog posts to show up in this module:

1) you set the module to blogs
2) you set the module to the amount of posts you want
3) you set the module to search for the title of your blog. For instance my "Religion and Spirituality lenses (and more)"
NB Make sure you use those quotes: if you're announcing this as your own blog, you don't want other people's blogposts showing up.

You might be tempted to use the URL (http://spirituality.squidtop.com/ for instance) as a search term, but that method doesn't work for some reason.

See below for the result.

Of course this only works for blogs that actually get indexed by google. If yours isn't, make sure you link to it from a relevant lens (for instance).

This means that you can use the blog search module to check if your blog is being indexed.

Do make sure to remember though: the automatically generated links to your lens in the blog search module DO NOT count as links for google SEO. So make sure you also put in a normal link to your blog somewhere.

Blog Posts from Google 

Religion and Spirituality lenses (and more) » New Squidoo Lenses ...
Personal blog of Christo Rufinus. Free wordpress themes and blogger templates.
Powered by Google

Feed My Search 

A bonus

The relatively new 'Feed My Search' Modules has more options than the google blog search module and also more glitches. But once you get it to work it's wonderful. So here goes the result for "squidoo seo". Again using google search, this time a web search (though there is a blog search option as well).
Feedmysearch needs your opinion, help and advice
Dear feedmysearch user, Feedmysearch would require some serious server upgrade and a bit of developm...
powered by FeedMySearch

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