Google Blog Search

Google launched Google Blog Search Beta, a search technology focused on blogs, early this week.

The new search enables users to find blogs containing topics of their interest, the results of which can be restricted to any of the 35 specific languages. One can also use Blog Search to find either specific posts or entire blogs.

How does it work? The technology indexes blogs by their site feeds, which are checked frequently for new content. This means that Blog Search results for a given blog will update with new content much faster than standard web searches. Also, because of the structured data within site feeds, it is possible to find precise posts and date ranges with much greater accuracy. Another feature of Google Blog Search, allows users to get subscribed to search results, where one can choose to recieve the top 10 or 100 results as either Atom or RSS feeds.

"Google is a strong believer in the self-publishing phenomenon represented by blogging, and we hope Blog Search will help our users to explore the blogging universe more effectively, and perhaps inspire many to join the revolution themselves. Whether you're looking for Harry Potter reviews, political commentary, summer salad recipes or anything else, Blog Search enables you to find out what people are saying on any subject of your choice," says the Blog Search website.

SEO Friendly directory list

A brand new seo friendly directory list is lanuched at www.searchenginesgalaxy.com

Contains list of search engines & directories, includes free and pay directory and search engines.

Directory list is organized in categories like Free Search Engine , Free Directory List , Paid Directories , Niche Directories , Blog Directory etc.

Free Renewal for Katrina Affected Domains

BulkRegister.com, a domain registrar, today announced that it is automatically renewing all domains set to expire through September 16, and those already expired, managed by BulkRegister members based in areas affected by Hurricane Katrina.

This action is designed to assure those displaced by the hurricane that they will retain ownership of their domains and they will continue to function. BulkRegister's members in areas hit by the storm manage thousands of domains, many of which provide access to the web sites of important businesses.

To qualify for this complimentary auto-renewal, domains must have already expired or be scheduled to expire by September 16, 2005, and the member's address must be in a zip code deemed closed to mail service by the United States Postal Service as of August 31, 2005

.in TLD Crosses 130,000 Registrations

The Department of Information Technology (DIT) and National Internet Exchange of India (nixi.in) relaunched the .in Registry, which has recently resulted in a tremendous boost in registrations.

With 30 Registrars having been accredited to offer the .in TLD registrations worldwide to customers, the number of registrants has grown from 6,500 to 130,000. The entire process of registration is online. The opening of the .in Registry has significantly improved and broadened the availability of the domain names.

In order to bring about a deeper penetration of this TLD, a new Internet domain name policy framework plan was announced by the Government in October 2004. The policy aimed at removing the restrictions in the existing procedures and pushed to introduce a liberal and market-friendly approach to register large number of .in domain names.