27th
February
2008
Back in August I told you about the creation of the Beer Blog Search Engine. Using Google’s Custom Search product, I collected every beer-focused blog I could find and added them. I mostly did it for my own use, because I often want to see what the “beerblogosphere” is saying about a topic. I figured that other people might find it useful too.
I continually add blogs to it. Some I found by following a long chain of links. Others are blogs that have come online just recently.
Here are some new additions (in no particular order):
If you know of any others that would be good additions, don’t hesitate to drop us a line.
Beer Blog Search
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written by Al | posted in Beer, Resources | tagged beer blogs, blogosphere, search |
9th
December
2007
A couple of months ago I announced the creation of the Beer Blog Search Engine. Using Google’s Custom Search product, I collected every beer-focused blog I could find and added them. Mostly I did it for myself, because I very often want to see what the “beerblogosphere” is saying about a topic. I figured that other people might find it useful too, which is why I mentioned it.
I’ve continued to add blogs to it as well. Some are ones that I found by following a long chain of links. Others are blogs that have just come online very recently. The search engine is now indexing the contents of about 150 beer-focused weblogs.
Here are some recent additions:
If you know of any others that would be good additions, don’t hesitate to drop us a line.
Beer Blog Search
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written by Al | posted in Beer, Resources | tagged beer blogs, blogosphere, search |
1st
August
2007
Blogging about beer is becoming rather popular. Witness the large number of beer blogs that have come online in the last few months.
I love it. Beer is, as we know, a social thing. The more people talking about it, especially good beer, the better.
Unfortunately, very often finding what beer enthusiasts are talking about is nigh impossible. Search for “beer” or similar on Google and the vast majority of what you get is drunken college-age kids discussing beer pong, their latest beer binge, or how much better one industrial-brewed American light lager is than another. And forget trying to search for information on beer luminary Michael Jackson. It’s not unlike the volume produced by any one of America’s big brewers compared to the entire volume of all craft brewers. (My local convenience store has at any one time a dozen or more cases of Bud Light, Coors Light, Miller Genuine Draft, etc. The depth of their foray into craft beer is a case or two of Yuengling.)
But all is not lost. What if there was a way to get Google to limit its searches to a list of good, non-spammy blogs and other resource-rich beer sites? Well, there is. Take a peek:
Beer Blog Search
Currently a little over 100 hundred beer blogs are included in the index, and I try to add more as I find them.
Of course, that’s a much bigger job than one person can reasonably do. If you know of a blog that you think should be included or, even better, if you’d like to help out managing the listed of indexed blogs, drop me a line. I can be reached at al (at) hop-talk (dot) com or by using our Contact Us page.
So what? Well, try searching for “michael jackson” versus the same search on regular Google.
One of my favorite things to do is to search on a particular beer to see what other bloggers say about it. Such as Dogfish Head’s 90 Minute IPA. More useful than the regular Google search, I think.
I hope you find it useful.
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written by Al | posted in Beer, Resources | tagged beer blogs, search |
31st
July
2007
We’ve created a custom Google Search engine that indexes over 150 blogs dedicated to beer.
(more details)
If you think your blog should be included, or you’d like to help adding blogs to the index, please drop us a line.
Beer Pong Blog The original blog about beer pong from Pong A Long! More than just beer pong tables, check out the beer pong equipment and news!
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written by Al | posted in Beer | tagged blog, search |
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