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Not to be outdone by upstart competitors (Technorati, Blogdigger, Feedster, and more), Google has announced a beta-version of its blog search. This is still a baby-beta version: it covers blog content back only to June 2005 so far, although it’s reasonable to expect that the coverage will increase as takeup of the product ramps up. Unlike most Google search appliances, Google’s Blog Search doesn’t search the full text of blogs — rather, it only searches the “feed” — the part of the blog posting that an author sends out through an RSS feed. Most bloggers only send a short part…

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