Google - Features and Products
List of all Google Services
Google Blog
Official Google's web log, with news of new products, events and
glimpses of life inside the Googleplex are mentioned in the blog.
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/
Google Blog Search
In google blog Search, all the basic functions you'd expect from
Google search results are present, including ranking results by
date or by relevance. More importantly, the advanced search of Google
Search Blog offers powerful functionality such as
- Searching by date ranges and limiting to individual blog authors
- Searching for words in a blog post title or by language
But google Blog Search crawl feeds only. Because feeds are, at
least ideally, better structured than the published HTML of most
blogs, it's possible to extract information like authorship of a
post in a fairly consistent way.
Another point is that blogs publishing partial-entry feeds (many,
many of these) will suffer a damaged profile in results because
much of their text remains uncrawled. You could argue that this
drawback is the publisher's problem, not Google's.
http://blogsearch.google.com/
Google Blogger
Blogger is by far the biggest name in online Blogging tools and
probably has the most members, with 1.5 million registered users.
The free version of Blogger is simple to use but is (understandably)
light on features. By default, Blogger accounts are hosted on BlogSpot
(www.blogspot.com), a storage site owned by Blogger. Free accounts
have ads on their pages. Upgraded accounts cost $5 or $10 per month
for 25MB or 100MB of storage space and are ad-free.
The good: Free; easy to use.
The bad: Lacks video support; limited to one user.
The bottom line: Beginners will love Blogger's ease of use and the
fact that it's free. However, professionals should look elsewhere.
http://www.blogger.com/
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