A New Search Engine

Wow. I haven't seen a new engine strategy since Google came out. Now comes Feedster, an engine that merely searches blogs. This would be no small thing though if you subscribe to the notion that the Internet was supposed to increase the voice of the little guy in the face of rapidly congealing multi-market media giants. In that respect they could have called this David's Slingshot then. Or for a more secular image, they could name it after the small mammals that were running around underfoot in the last days of the dinosaurs. From their about page:

Every single day Feedster monitors tens of thousands of different weblogs always keeping the index up to date. New information on a blog can flow into Feedster as quickly as less than an hour...We have developed very smart "auto-discovery" routines which understand how blogs operate and use that understanding to identify new RSS / RDF feeds. All this information is warehoused on our server farm where our full text indexer operates and executes queries.