It helps me in two ways: keyword / expression search, where sometimes other people say smart things NOT on their own blogs but in comments.

The other way is keeping track of myself: when I comment somewhere, forget to set co.mments and later the subject comes up again.. I remember I was part of a relevant comment thread somewhere, just don’t know where:-)

One way for me to filter out splogs is toe set “some authority” vs. “any”. This is one of the reasons I am still using Technorati, vs. Google. Sadly, as of a few weeks, it no longer remembers my default setting:-(

Near as ew can tell, Google is indexing all the RSS feeds it can see from a blog, which often includes comment feeds (for blogs that have comment feeds). We looked at that and decided that those feeds were, on the whole, really spammy.

But I’m always open to revisiting that decision. In what way do you find that the comment results on Google helpful? Do you find them spammy, or non-spammy? What are some searches that you do where you find the results from comments useful?

Thanks again for your great feedback. I really appreciate it, especially all the constructive feedback on how we can get better!

Dave

Now, the one exception to Technorati’s superioriry in features: comment search. This is big, and Google now provides it, while you don’t. I hope you won’t let them get away with this for long

Currently (8:18am PDT April 3, 2007):

http://www.technorati.com/search/videobloggingweek2007?authority=n&start=180

shows 193 results.

http://blogsearch.google.com/blogsearch?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&q=videobloggingweek2007&scoring=d&sa=N&start=90

Shows 94 results (really only 86, as Google says “Results 81 – 86 of about 94″)

Hope that help. I suggest attempting to click through deep into the results – you’ll often get a more accurate look at how many results are actually there, as opposed to the estimates that many search engines provide.

Dave