Dare notes that Google's new blog search isn't that great for link searching - something that Scoble turned up in initial testing a few days ago. I haven't done any real testing, but my gut has told me the same thing. At present, I have search feeds defined (for the same terms) using Feedster, Technorati, IceRocket, Google, and BlogPulse. I've noticed that PubSub has been just buried with splog results lately - so much so, that I may have to stop subscribing.

For those of you who are buzzword challenged, a "splog" is a spam blog - typically set up on a free site like BlogSpot. To see this, set up an RSS search in PubSub for Smalltalk (I'll bet good money that the same thing will happen for other terms as well). Once you start seeing results, you'll get hits from splogs shilling ceramic tiles, roofing materials - you name it. PubSub has some work to do, because they went from being really valuable to nearly useless in one fell swoop because of this.

It's getting to the point where I'll have to consider building in optional spam filtering for BottomFeeder...