There are certain keywords that are dominated by SEO optimization to the point that it is difficult to find results that are from other sources than a corporate website. Often the results I find most useful are the ones created by individuals in their "spare time" that they post on their blogs.<p>Is there a good "blog search" out there?<p>Is there currently something like Google Blog Search out there?<p>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Blog_Search
Marginalia search engine is worth a try: <a href="https://search.marginalia.nu/" rel="nofollow">https://search.marginalia.nu/</a><p>It's a search engine meant to be biased towards long-form content with minimal marketing and javascript trickery
2 fairly good option I saved from HN:<p><a href="https://bloggingfordevs.com/trends/" rel="nofollow">https://bloggingfordevs.com/trends/</a><p><a href="https://blogdb.org/blogs" rel="nofollow">https://blogdb.org/blogs</a>
Feedly has a "search all Feedly" mode. That will capture mostly blogs or at least things with RSS feeds. As folks have said blogs ain't what they used to be, many blog-like sites now are aggressively managed content farms.<p>You probably know this but a lot of folks find adding "reddit" to a search term helps them find genuine discussions.
There was this [1], posted a month ago on HN [2].<p>[1] <a href="https://blogsurf.io/" rel="nofollow">https://blogsurf.io/</a><p>[2] <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30844149" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30844149</a>
The only thing I’ve figured out that works is building a Google Custom Search Engine with your favorite list of 50-100 blogs but it’s far from perfect and doesn’t help with new discovery.
I wonder this too.<p>I kinda miss Twingly and Technorati.<p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20081101144747/http://www.twingly.com/about" rel="nofollow">https://web.archive.org/web/20081101144747/http://www.twingl...</a><p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080827193557/http://www.technorati.com/about/" rel="nofollow">https://web.archive.org/web/20080827193557/http://www.techno...</a>
Maybe <a href="https://teclis.com/" rel="nofollow">https://teclis.com/</a> from the makers of Kagi: <a href="https://kagi.com/" rel="nofollow">https://kagi.com/</a>.
I use millionshort to work past SEO glut: <a href="https://millionshort.com/" rel="nofollow">https://millionshort.com/</a> or use ddg bang !mill
I had that exact same thought last year and threw together a small project[1] to index some blogs. I didn't work much on it, though.<p>[1] <a href="https://www.blogdorp.com/" rel="nofollow">https://www.blogdorp.com/</a>
There are some interesting alternative search engines listed in this thread:<p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30783391" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30783391</a>
You could try <a href="https://searchmysite.net" rel="nofollow">https://searchmysite.net</a> to search personal and independent websites.
For tech specific: refined.blog is a good resource. Not necessarily sure it counts as a search engine, but definitely a good aggregation of tech blogs.
Aren't all those SEO optimized pages "blog posts"?<p>How would a search engine separate the "bad" blogs from the "good" ones?