Thing #11

     I found that Google's Blog Search was the easiest to use.  It didn't have any advertisements or buttons to clutter up the page.  You can be very specific or very narrow with your search and get lots of hits to check.  However, I like that when I stumble upon a website that offers a RSS or a blog that I like, I can simply click the standard RSS button to add it.  My Google Reader helped make this process even easier because before it would be added among my favorites which gave me lots to search through, now my Google Reader organizes and shows me new reads.
     I thought that Syndic8.com was the most confusing of the searches for several reasons.  First, it did not look as professional and didn't have the search box in an eye-catching, top of the page, typical location.  Also, the "5 random syndicated feed" list does not apply to me because I want blogs to be sorted by topic or popularity. 
     I liked that Topix provided top news for your zip code, but it doesn't really have any strong information or anything that was of interest to me.
     I found Technorati to be very useful to me because it combines technology news with other popular news for the time.  Like mentioned above, my oddest finds were from Topix.  There were posts where people were searching for long-lost friends and other odd posts about a lost cat.
     I also love knowing what the orange RSS box means.  There are so many pages that I search daily or weekly.  It was a pain to have to go there to see if new things were posted.  Now, with one (sometimes 2 clicks) I can look in my Google Reader and catch the news quickly.

Thanks to this image, my news is a few clicks away!