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in addition to a general blog search, Blogdigger offers Blog-
digger Local, which allows you to narrow your search to a
city and state. i ind this works better when you search for a
brand name or a proper name instead of a general search (if
searching colorado, using “denver post” works better than
using “newspaper”). if you're running a local business, this
is a terriic way to get blogging feedback on your industry in
your area.

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Blogdigger also offers Blogdigger groups, which allows you
to combine several blogs together (as long as they have rss
feeds). This is a handy way to review several blogs at once
via an rss feed. my only recommendation is that you make
sure the blogs are not overly active, or you'll have a hard time
keeping up with them.

Trapping
Like IceRocket, the RSS feed for keyword searches is on the right side of the
Search Results page. here's a link for an Atom feed there, too.

Possibilities
. Blogdigger has low volumes of results, but also very low volumes of
blog spam.
. Feel free to use more general queries here.

Is there any way that your searching could take advantage of the
Blogdigger Local feature?

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Google Blog search
With blogs being so hot, it's no surprise that Google has picked up on the
interest and made available its own blog search (google.com/blogsearch).
And though in some respects it has a ways to go before it catches up with
established blog search engines like Technorati, it's still a useful addition to
your monitoring toolkit.

Building your queries
You can build your queries using Google's advanced blog search at google.
com/blogsearch/advanced_blog_search. If you're a frequent user of Google,