Comparing 2 blog search engines

Those of you who know me know that one of the client projects I’m working on for many years is Bloggapedia.

It started as a categorized collection of blogs and then became a blogging community.

From the very beginning, I always bugged everyone involved to let me make a search engine out of it and a few months back they finally agreed and told me to go for it. So it took me a while to develop the search part and the blogs are manually approved so there is really no junk.

Right now Bloggapedia is a full text search engine (and it doesn’t use MySQL’s fulltext search either, it was too slow ) and it searches all the blogs in the database at the speed of light and the quality of the result is great!

Now, there is another famous blog search engine called Icerocket. Icerocket has so much reputation and it’s name is everywhere BUT I don’t understand why?

For example take a look at the search result for the term “Sushi” on Icerocket:

http://www.icerocket.com/search?tab=blog&fr=h&q=sushi

Now, compare this with Bloggapedia:

http://www.bloggapedia.com/blog_search.php?q=Sushi&=posts

Do you see the difference?

And hey if you are from Icerocket, I can fix this for you