Google upgraded its blog search engine as it had been getting a lot of negative feedback regarding the way a blog post was indexed. Earlier, Google BlogSearch only indexed feeds which didn’t provide good results for sites offering partial feeds. The new method involves a more comprehensive search by indexing the entire content of the page.

Jeremy Hylton from Google BlogSearch explains:

We have changed the way we index blog posts to include the full content of the page. We’ve had occasional complaints about the use of the feed content, particularly the problem with partial feeds. The indexing change has improved the results for a lot of queries, both because we have the full content of the page and because we extract links that are missing from the feeds. The downside of this change is that we see more results that match only the blogroll and other parts of the page that are common to all of a blog’s posts.

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