Spinning Guyro

Keep Your Arms And Legs Inside The Ride At All Times

Today is the first day of the rest of my life. Okay, that's a little melodramatic, and it isn't technically today. Anyway, these are definitely the first few weeks of a new chapter.

Source: Flickr / TimmyGUNZ

After years working, having fun and learning a lot with the incredible team at Collactive, I am taking my first step into the world beyond, to start my own venture.

People talk about the roller coaster that is entrepreneurship. For a while I have been standing by the rides, gazing in awe at the people spinning above me. Right now, the feeling I have is that excitement/fear/anticipation you get when you finally get on the ride and lock yourself in (click!). The roller coaster has barely started moving. It hasn't climbed, or fallen, or twisted yet. There's only thing you are certain of - that you can't get off anymore.

Here goes nothing.

How Not To Search For Blogs

ReadWriteWeb's recent roundup of blog search engines got me thinking how much we really need a solution for blog search. The major players here are simply, well, not quite there yet. I've had plenty of quality time with both Google Blog Search and Technorati and both have their fair share of problems.

Google Blog Search is the quick'n'dirty one - it works fast but includes all sorts of things that aren't really blogs (such as comment feeds). Additionally, there is no real ranking so it leaves you to sort the wheat from the chaff. Google Blogsearch alerts are pretty good, though.

Technorati, on the other hand, has a decent database but has too many bugs. The highlight is the "Sorry, an error has occurred" pages I see way too often. How can a respectable Alexa 500 site live with these problems? It's even worse than the Twitter fail whale!

I admit I haven't dabbled enough in IceRocket or Ask.com Blogsearch so I won't have anything intelligent to say about them. I will definitely give them a shot.

So what's your solution for blog search?