Blogdigger.com - Search Your Favorite Blogs

Blogdigger is one of the new alternative search engines that focuses on - you guess it - blogs. Blogdigger searches thousands of RSS and Atom feeds to index blog content and make it available for search. Blogdigger also makes all search results available in RSS or Atom, so users can subscribe to keyword searches and automatically be notified of new content pertaining to their interests. Blogdigger searches thousands of RSS and Atom feeds. You can also use Blogdigger to search specific RSS feeds of recent media content, you can group the contents of two or more blogs making the combined content easily accessible, or you can do a link search providing backlink checking, seeing which posts are linking to other online content. You can also download the Blogdigger tool bar for immediate access, and they recently added a new "local" blog search based on zip codes.

Blogdigger--the search engine for RSS and blogs--began as an experiment with RSS and search technologies in March 2003. Blogdigger uses state of the art syndication technologies, such as RSS and Atom, to index blog content and make it available for search. Blogdigger also makes all search results available in RSS or Atom, so users can subscribe to keyword searches and automatically be notified, via the News Aggregator of their choice, of new content pertaining to their interests. Blogdigger searches thousands of RSS and Atom feeds, and is built-in to many popular News Aggregators, such as FeedDemon and NetNewsWire.

Blogdigger is one of the more popular alternative search engines because it is simple and focused. There is nothing better than finding a niche search engine that is well designed and professionally managed, as is this site. Blogs are a main source of information, news, gossip, advice, etc and this site will help you find your favorite ones.

Where were the corporate sponsorships? I saw the Google Adsense bubbles, but this site should be raking in the corporate sponsorships, especially those with RSS feeds (ie., the major periodicals). Also, I wanted to find out how to make my blog searchable, but I couldn't easily find that answer. Maybe they can add a FAQ section for those of us that are still new to the blogosphere.