Fruitlessly Searching

Blogs change the way search engines work. Until people started doing daily updates on general topic blogs, it was fairly easy to find information about a subject by doing a simple keyword search. You usually found a site about that keyword. Now, though, there are a ton of blogs out there that are updated frequently, and have no specific topic. So if you do a keyword search now, you are as likely to find an almost unrelated post on a blog as you are a website based on what you are looking for. Even worse, if the blog has a small retention time, the chances are good that the post with the keyword won't even be around on the main page by the time you search for it.

I keep noticing the strangest searches on my sitemeter log. Other bloggers have noticed it too. You almost need a way to filter out blogs when searching, now, so you don't get the random nothingness.