Earlier this month and before Google launch its blog search, I documented all blog search engines capability of finding new links. When Google blog search was released, I was amazed how much better it was then the other engines. Since then, Technorati has improved, IceRocket has improved and maybe now we have a four-way challenge with Bloglines (the best last month) and Google (the newcomer). Let's start it again. For any links discovered on posts tomorrow or later, I will document and aggregate the results to see who's the best blogosphere search engine, this month.

Enumeration of competitors

1. Bloglines [http://www.bloglines.com/citations?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.kbcafe.com]
2. KBCafe [http://www.kbcafe.com/links.aspx?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.kbcafe.com]
3. PubSub [http://www.pubsub.com/site_stats.php?site=kbcafe.com]
4. IceRocket [http://blogs.icerocket.com/search?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.kbcafe.com]
5. BlogPulse [http://www.blogpulse.com/search?boolean=link&link=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.kbcafe.com]
6. Technorati [http://www.technorati.com/search/www.kbcafe.com]
7. Feedster [http://feedster.com/links.php?url=www.kbcafe.com]
8. Blogdigger [http://www.blogdigger.com/linkSearch.jsp?link=www.kbcafe.com]
9. Google [http://blogsearch.google.com/blogsearch?hl=en&q=link%3Akbcafe.com&scoring=d]

Am I missing anybody? Splogs or self-referential blogs will not be included in the results.

Results:

• Keeping track of blog updates with feeds - KBCafe, IceRocket.
• KoshigoeBLOG - Bloglines
• Freshblog - Bloglines, Google, Technorati, PubSub (late)
• Surfarama - Bloglines, Technorati, Google (late), PubSub (late) 
• Gary Feng - KBCafe, IceRocket, Bloglines, Technorati
• Pubhub - Technorati
• Abu Azzam Was Not Al-Zarqawi's #2 - KBCafe, IceRocket, Bloglines, Technorati, PubSub (late)
• Stepanenko - Bloglines, KBCafe, IceRocket, BlogPulse (late), PubSub (late) 
• A Profile of Fug - Google, Bloglines, BlogPulse (late), PubSub (late)
• Online Google Sitemap - Technorati
• Web Hosting News - KBCafe, IceRocket, Technorati 
• RSS Tools - KBCafe, IceRocket, Bloglines
• R|mail Over 5000 Subs - KBCafe, BlogPulse
• OPML Category Index - Bloglines
• OPML all the way - Bloglines, Google
• Atom Media Type - PubSub
• Bar Camp Toronto - Bloglines

Notes:

• Bloglines is aggravatingly slow.
• KBCafe found the first link thru an IceRocket metasearch. As such, the first link was found via two services, but IceRocket was the real source in both cases. IceRocket 1, everybody else 0.
• Feedster is painfully slow too! And the Javascript errors are annoying.
• BlogPulse seems to be broken today.
• After day 1, Bloglines 3, IceRocket 3, Technorati 3 and Google 1. Everybody else 0.
• When I find new links with PubSub, it's always linked via the homepage. Finding the link is difficult. Quite often, it's gone, or maybe it was never there (false positive).
• I'm surprised by the amount of new links I'm finding with Technorati. Of late, I get next to nothing from Technorati.
• After day 2, Bloglines 7, Technorati 6, IceRocket 4, Google 2, PubSub 1.
• BlogPulse seems to be jammed until Friday, when new results start rolling in by the dozen (mostly splog and self-referential).
• Technorati has improve the most this last week.