By John Alexander

Check out Google's very own new Blog Search Engine at: http://blogsearch.google.com

With the high interest people have in reading Blogs, it is certainly no surprise that Google has just launched their own new Blog search engine. Google is by no means the very first search engine to create blog search functionality. Other smaller companies like Technorati and Feedster have had similar type search services around for quite a while.

Currently it is in its Beta test phase. There is some speculation in general, that other major search engines will be following the trend with their own brand of Blog search engines.

Blog Search contains many of the "advanced search capabilities" of the regular web search engine, such as

exact words

phrases

searches by author

and restricting search to specific dates

filtering and no filtering

Advanced Blog search also includes searching in other foreign languages such as:

Arabic

Bulgarian

Catalan

Chinese

Croatian

Czech

Danish

Dutch

English
Finnish

French

German

Greek

Hebrew

Hungarian

Icelandic

Indonesian

Italian
Japanese
Korean
Polish
Portuguese
Romanian
Russian
Spanish
Swedish
Turkish
Plus many others

As we teach our students more about creating useful Blogs that serve some purpose, it only stands to reason that people will want to be able to search through literally billions of Blog topics to find just what they're looking for. Will Google be the most popular Blogging search engine in the future? Will they introduce methods of monetizing Blog search results in the future? I am sure we can count on some interesting developments things progress in the future.