Thing 11

And I thought the search engine on the google reader site was great, Technorati is even better.  I like how you can type in a topic and get instant results.  Topix is a lot like Technorati but the results tend to come from news websites that featured an article or blog response that contains the topic searched.  These websites cover a vast number of topics and are not always as specialized, or focused, on the one area of interest.  Familiarity made the Google blog search very comfortable to use.  The appearance and search tools are like all of the other Google search tools - familiar and easy to manipulate.  I think that Topix was the most confusing for me.  I didn't like the way the results were displayed.  I did find some useful sites dedicated to everything from preschool arts and crafts to solutions for problems with Toyota trucks.  What was a little weird was the feed for a blog The most unusual thing I saw was a forum comment written by a mother written by a mother who was upset because her kindergarten daughter brought home vocabulary words.  One was the word gun and it was accompanied by a picture of a burglar carrying a gun. Weird!  I would prefer a picture of a cop carrying a gun.  I was surprised to find hundreds of results when I Googled "blog search engines."  I had no idea that it would be so easy to find blogs that focus on my interests.