Technorati has put together a wicked search engine. It’s in beta form, but certainly very useable. It searches blogs. Nothing else. Doc Searls talks about using it to search for current postings, and, becasue Technorati is coded for it, that Technorati’s results are more up to date than the major search engines (Google, Yahoo, Teoma, etc). What strikes and excites me is it’s ability to locate bloggers with similar interests and could help foment friendships.

[edit1] More on search engines: John Batelle’s Searchblog has a post on A9 Amazon’s new search engine that uses a combination of google and amazon algorythms to perform searches. The idea being that you’ll have results doubly filtered for accuracy. - I tried it yesterday and kinda like it, though the design seems a little too ‘nice’ for my tastes.

[edit2] Even more on search engines: Kinja has just launched it’s beta blog searching engine. Looks good so far. I suggested the adding ‘urban culture’ as a category…