After reading the information for this blog entry, I know that it's possible to search for blogs using blog Engines, and each blog engine offers a variety of tools to assist users. For example, "you can search for keywords in blog posts, search for entire blog posts that have been tagged with a certain keyword, or search for blogs that have been registered and tagged as whole blogs about a certain subject" (like photography, Libraries).
We were also asked to select two blog engines and search for blogs using keywords, the subject, and other search terms. There were a list of search engines to choose from. For example, Technorati, Blog Search Engines, Blog Search Engines: the complete overview, and Directory of Blog Search Engines to find Blogs.
For this excercise, I chose along with Technorati, Blog Search Engines and compared the two.
Using the Technorati search engine, I typed in the subject "libraries". This subject produced 26,477 results. There were so much to choose from. There were blogs about library cuts, programs, library research papers, and some blogs about "the everyday life of a librarian".
Using this same subject term, I explored the Blog Search Engine.
This search yeilded 13, 000 results. Some of the blogs located in this search were Google Vs Libraries, college libraries, how to read books on-line, among several others.
What I discovered while exploring these two blog engines is that it's much more productive to search by using a subject term than by using keywords in a post.
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