So not only did Google launch blog search (more on that in a sec), but they redid the Blogger start page to reflect the new search and drive more traffic into blogs. There's a dynamic crawl linking to newly updated blogs, a blog of the day clickable list, and the good ol' random link.

As for the new Google blog search, it seems to be indexing constantly--I could swear my first search on Jarvis & Dell via Google Blog Search turned up(undated) two posts with no dateline, while the one I did just now resulted in 578 nicely annotated posts. Oddly enough, when I used the new blog search box on Blogger to do the same search I got 550 results--have no idea why.

Meanwhile, my Technorati search on the same keywords provided a clearly labelled 699 posts with 20 posts in the last ten days and a Feedster search provided 390 dated and annotated results.

Susan sez: A good start from the big guys; let's see how the indexing shakes out as they make the small tweaks--and, most importantly--where they integrate this thing. The elephant in the room isn't their computing power, IMHO, it's the building GoogleNet suite of indispensable apps--as they hook them together, world domination looms.

Update: Nick W at Threadwatch says the new search focuses on feeds, not blogs.

Winer explains.