highly recommend posting direct to friendfeed rather than via twitter when it's important...people hide tweets galore on here :( - Zee.

I have to ask, but how many people would ever actually use Google Blog Search over Google's normal search? Even I don't usually bother with it. I'm guessing just the early adopter set and a small percentage of normal people who click the 'more' link on Google's homepage would. So I actually don't think Techmeme is much under threat by this. Also, why do people (and especially Marshall ;-) keep ragging on Technorati? It's great at what it does, index blogs. I use it far more than Google Blog Search. - Richard via FriendFeed MT Plugin

If I want to search blogs specifically, I'd always use Blog Search. Similarly, News Search for news, Image Search for images. The links are pretty prominent on every search page, surely more people than techie early adopters have explored them? As for Technorati, I think it's their metrics for measuring relative importance that annoy people, rather than the indexing service. - Neil Saunders

Agree with Neil and do the same things but Technorati seems pointless, it's always borked - Sally Church

I really like the blog search on Google. Sometimes I specifically want it. -

Neil: "The links are pretty prominent on every search page, surely more people than techie early adopters have explored them?" I dunno, the link on google main page is one of the ones in the 'more' drop down list. Admittedly even that would get more links than most of us could dream of, being on google.com. But still I don't think it's something most people think to use when searching. - Richard via FriendFeed MT Plugin

I've been using Google Blog Search for ages. I like the granularity options (last week, 12 months, etc) - Deepak Singh

This could prove to be relevant for any niche who does not have a good working memetracker like we do have with Techmeme. The reason why I am looking forward to Googles approach? They are one of the few services in the world to get internationalization right. I am sorry, but I could care less about the daily blantering of US Politics and if I had a snooze button on every time somebody on a tech blog goes politics I'd be happy to use it. Techmeme has 'my' niche, so it will stay my first choice because it provides somethings others dont - a big fast visual clue. For the rest of the topics - most of them will never be done in a Techmeme way - it will be good news until the spammers get into it even more. Some checks shows that spammers are highly in it already and I assume google takes this as a natural approach to Websites / News and now blogs. - Nicole Simon via FriendFeed MT Plugin

This sounds like a good thing with Open Access day coming - how many hundred blog posts will it take to get to the top? - Cameron Neylon

Although I do like it, clustering memes has always been good for me. - Dan Morrill AKA Techwag

The two tools strike me as doing different things. Google's is still primarily a search tool; Techmeme strikes me as a better tool in dealing with the need for current awareness. - Jill O'Neill