If you are looking for background information on an industry sector, specific product, type of technology, etc you may want to check out the blogosphere. You may also find it a useful way of locating expert candidates in that field. If you want to search blogs you should use a blog specific search engine. So here is my handy list:
Google Blogsearch
Technorati
Ask- Blogs
Blogpulse
Blogdigger
On Technorati and Blogpulse you can track trends (to see activity pertaining to specific terms). However, I personally find Technorati really confusing and always fall back on Google Blogsearch.
Once I find a blog I like (which doesn’t have it's own search functionality) I often use the "at this URL" to search for specific words/phrases within the site. In fact I used to have to use it for my own blog when I'd forgotten if I'd already written about a subject! It's no longer a problem since I added the nifty BlogBar search box you can see on the left.
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