Oh my word! Michelle over at scribbit has developed the most amazing tool! You are going to love this! She’s agreed to cross-post her blog post about this wonder-tool right here for your viewing pleasure, although you’ll need to hop over there to see it in action! Now here’s Michelle to explain it all.
I’ve created something that may be of interest to you.
It’s a
custom search engine powered by Google that searches select blogs on
parenting, crafts, cooking, gardening and blogs by women. Normally when
you search for a word or phrase Google returns millions of results,
displaying the most popular based on their magic algorithms. For my
custom search engine I have narrowed Google’s parameters so that a
search here will only return results from the blogs I’ve specified.
What does this mean?
Say you’re writing a post on children watching television and would like to add to what others have written on the subject, by searching with this custom search engine you’d learn what Thrifty Mommy, Play Library, Rocks in My Dryer, Izzy Mom or the other thousand blogs on parenting have to say on the subject.
If you’re writing a post on sibling rivalry or how to deal with it
and want to link to other posts on the subject, searching in my custom
search engine searches your favorite blogs all at once and gives a more
manageable number of results specific to your subject matter than
Google could provide. Linking to other blogs just got easier.
But it doesn’t stop there, if you want to find ideas for encouraging family exercise, children’s birthday parties, lunchbox tips or decorating cupcakes–my
custom search engine will filter out more of the sites that don’t match
what you want and will give you more of what your fellow bloggers and
their readers have to say on the subject.
If you want to hear
what other blogs are saying about Anna Nicole, Brittney, James Cameron,
Lost or Grey’s Anatomy or if you want to to connect with blogs that are
on a specific subject matter–regional blogs, parenting blogs, book
review blogs, product review blogs–this search engine will get you
closer to what other blogs are saying than Google typically can.
Go
ahead and give it a try. Type in "sleep deprivation," "herb gardening,"
"picky eaters," "kid crafts," "celebrity moms," "breastfeeding,"
"expat," "kid crafts" or "homeschooling" and see the results that come
up. Pretty slick, huh?
I’ve added over 1500 blogs, mostly those registered with Crazy Hip Blog Mamas, Blogher, Blogging Chicks and Blogger Chicks.
If you want to see if your blog is included, type in the name or URL
and see if it comes up. If it isn’t there drop me an email at scribbit
at gmail .com and I’ll make sure you’re added.
I’ve added this
feature at the top of my sidebar–feel free to bookmark it and use it
whenever you need to do a quick search through your favorite blogs. If
you’d like to put a search bar on your blog please email me and I’ll
send you the code. Alternately, Lucy at An Ordinary Mom and her brother at MG Wallace Designs
put together six buttons that I’ve made into links if you’d like to
choose one to display as a graphic link back to the search engine.
If you are interested in having this awesome search engine on your site, please leave a comment for Michelle on this post at her blog. Let her know we sent you!
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