Dec 28, 2006 at 1:41pm ET by Barry Schwartz

Hitwise reports that Google Blog Search has passed Technorati in visits this week. Hitwise explains that when Google added a link from Google News to Google Blog Search in October, the traffic for Google Blog Search spiked by 168%. Hitwise reports that currently about 60% of Google Blog Search traffic comes from Google News referrals.

About The Author: Barry Schwartz is Search Engine Land's News Editor and owns RustyBrick, a NY based web consulting firm. He also runs Search Engine Roundtable, a popular search blog on very advanced SEM topics. Barry's personal blog is named Cartoon Barry and he can be followed on Twitter here. For more background information on Barry, see his full bio over here. See more articles by Barry Schwartz

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One Comment on Google Blog Search Passes Technorati In Visits

Michael Martinez, December 28th, 2006 at 2:41 pm ET:

This may explain why I keep getting run-time errors at Google Blogsearch. I’ve started using Ask’s Blogsearch more often the past week or so because Google just bombs out.

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