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Google launches search engine for blogs
Last Updated Wed, 14 Sep 2005 18:15:32 EDT
CBC News
Internet search engine Google launched a search tool for blogs Wednesday.

The new tool will allow users to sort through the millions of internet blogs - a long-anticipated development which is expected to help propel blogging into the cultural mainstream.

Google, based in Mountain View, Calif., is the internet’s general search engine leader, first set its sights on blogs with its 2003 acquisition of a small startup called Blogger that makes software to publish and manage the journals.

Since that deal, Google had been expected to build a blogging-focused search engine - a mission finally accomplished by a group of by developers in the company’s New York office.

“There really has been a need for a world-class search product to expose this dynamic content to a worldwide audience,” said Jason Goldman, who came to Google in the Blogger deal and is now the company’s product manager for blogging search.

There’s speculation that Yahoo and Microsoft may soon offer blog search tools as well.

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