---
title: "Google Blog Search Sucks"
date: 2005-09-14
author: "Richard MacManus"
categories:
  - name: "ReadWriteWeb"
    url: "/category/readwriteweb.md"
tags:
  - name: "2005"
    url: "/tag/2005.md"
---

# Google Blog Search Sucks

Why? Because they’ve only [indexed my blog](https://web.archive.org/web/20060127203809/http://blogsearch.google.com/blogsearch?as_q=&num=10&hl=en&c2coff=1&btnG=Search+Blogs&as_epq=&as_oq=&as_eq=&bl_pt=&bl_bt=&bl_url=readwriteweb.com&bl_auth=&as_drrb=q&as_qdr=&as_mind=1&as_minm=3&as_miny=2005&as_maxd=14&as_maxm=9&as_maxy=2005&lr=&safe=off&scoring=d&filter=0&sa=N&start=0) up till 26 May 2005! What’s up with that?!

[SearchEngineWatch](https://web.archive.org/web/20060127203809/http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/blog/050914-092757) has a good summary of opinions in the blogosphere. Put me down as ‘Underwhelmed’ please Danny (sub-category ‘Peeved’).

**UPDATE:** I’ve discovered the issue is that Google Blog Search indexes the RSS domain name, not the blog one. Because I have a Feedburner RSS feed, it’s indexing feeds.feedburner.com/readwriteweb as the domain name for my blog. This is true of other Feedburner customers too – e.g. John Battelle’s blog has the same issue. So I’ve contacted Google Blog Search about this.

*Originally published on ReadWriteWeb ([archived copy](https://web.archive.org/web/20020204040018/http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/google_blog_sea.php))*