Google Blog Search

Google today launches a new homepage for its Google Blog Search tool, so that anyone can browse and discover the latest and greatest posts from across the entire blogosphere, whether they are Blogger blogs, Wordpress hosted blogs, Typepad blogs, or blogs on any other CMS software platform.

The company says it has evolved the technology used by the Google News service so that it can show categories down the left-hand side of the site and organize blog posts in those categories into clusters. Clusters, as you might guess are simply groupings of blog posts about the same story or event. By grouping posts in this way, Google claims that readers will be able to see the best posts on a story as well as get a variety of perspectives on any given subject.

If you dig deeper into each cluster, you get a collection of the most interesting and recent posts on the topic, but usefully there is also a timeline graph that shows you how the story is gaining momentum in the blogosphere and shows its blogospheric heritage so you can see which blogger blogged on their blog first.

Of course, Google Blog Search is not the only blog search tool, you could also try your search on Technorati, Bloglines, Icerocket, Blogpulse, Blogdigger, and Twingly.

So, now you’re asking, which browser should I use to browse the new Google Blog Search? Well, you might think I’d suggest Google Chrome, and maybe I will once they pull their finger out and get addons and plugins sorted for that superfast browser, but in the meantime, I guess it’s gotta be Firefox.