Feedster
“Feedster “:http://www.feedster.com/ bills itself as the search engine for “The Changing Web.” When it first came out I completely agreed with that - I found it amazingly useful for simply and easily finding out what people in the blog world have been writing about recently. In my opinion there is a market for a search engine that only indexes blogs, and Feedster filled that bill in its early days.
These days, however, Feedster has become less useful to me as it moves out of that niche market. As they have expanded the service more and more non-blogs are being indexed so that the search results every day approach the results you would find in Google. If I want to see search results that include the Orlando Sentinel then I’ll use Google, not Feedster. Feedster should be for finding out what Joe Blow in Orlando has been blogging about.
Unless Feedster stays true to its roots and reverts to focusing on blogs it will slowly become irrelevant.
I agree 100%. I used to use it for some stuff here and there. It seems that if the page has an RSS feed, Feedster indexes it. To me, that is going to ruin Feedster for what it was valuable as searches get polluted with more and more non-blog stuff.
I think it interesting that MicroDoc (http://bloggers-news.info) has an article about blogs spamming Google, and now Feedster has the problem of non-blogs spamming it.