Yahoo testing RSS and blog search

If, like me, you're tired of run­ning into loads of spam on Tech­no­rati and Feed­ster these days, you know how excit­ing the prospect of blog-only search­ing by the two big tyke search engines is. Well Yahoo's mak­ing over­tures (no pun intended).

If, like me, you're tired of run­ning into loads of spam on Tech­no­rati and Feed­ster these days, you know how excit­ing the prospect of blog-only search­ing by the two big tyke search engines is. At Tech­no­rati, I even have old posts com­ing up as new, occa­sion­ally fol­lowed by no search results at all, one time and huge list on the same results the next time. If this fas­ci­nat­ing Busi­ness Week arti­cle is any indi­ca­tion, these scal­a­bil­ity issues are any­thing but going away.

Google would be the first usual sus­pect to intro­duce this func­tion­al­ity with it's acqui­si­tion of Blog­ger, but looks like Yahoo has been mak­ing most of the first strides (e.g., Cre­ative Com­mons search).

Now, Steve Rubel exposes Yahoo's stealth blog/RSS search engine, which has since been taken down. From Rubel's screen­shot, it looks like Yahoo sim­ply applied its web search engine to a cor­pus of blog posts, i.e. yet another Feedster.

Read all about these inter­ests from SearchEngineWatch here.