I love Google Desktop Search's Web Clips.  TechCrunch is one of the feeds tracked and about 20 minutes ago I saw an item scroll up on Yahoo Blog Search 3m—jump!—hat tip to John Battelle for breaking the news (Michael do you ever leave your computer?)  So Yahoo has their blog search.  Will it out do IceRocket, Google, MSN?  Umm, no.  Umm, in fact, it rots.

 

Why?  Because they made it part of their Yahoo News section.  Which, in theory, makes some sense, but the implementation is bad.  Check out these two searches:

Note, that Web 2.0 has results in the main content area and that Tris Hussey doesn't.  No, I don't feel slighted, but I write a lot on a lot of blogs, how can there be only 7 references?  Searching for blogs in news isn't the best idea.  Blogs report and analyze the news, not just adjuncts.

 

Yahoo.  Try again.

 

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