The new Google Blog Search homepage

Google updated it's blog search service, adding a new homepage similar to Google News, that shows all the latest most popular stories from blogs. It needs some improvement but it's already very useful.

Google groups the posts based on their content. That means that you can view many opinions about a topic with just a click. It also gives us a nice graph about the topic coverage through time.

The blogs posted on the main page aren't picked by Google, but by an algorythm that calculates what's most popular from it's index. Any blog, even yours, could be in Google Blog Search homepage, the only thing you have to do is to get popular.

There are 11 categories: politics, US, world, business, technology, video games, science, entertainment, movies, television and sports.

The problem we see is that the results are not filtered. You can see spam messages, forum posts or even comments. Also, it doesn't provide an rss feed. Of course we can always expect more improvements. Well done Google!

Check it: Google Blog Search's homepage.