http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/10/browse-what-world-is-saying-on-blog.html

http://blogsearch.google.com/

google now compiles a list of blogposts clustered by topic.. hopefully this means this feature will be available in google reader as well, so one has not to read multiple blogposts on the same topic if you subscribe to a lot of feeds in one genre..

If you search for "Google Blog Search", Google says, before showing any results:

<<Related Blogs:
Google Blogoscoped – Google, the World, and the World Wide Web, Weblogged>>

But Blogoscoped doesn't appear in the result (just waiting for Philipp...).

The related blog link is http://blogoscoped.com/, which is -I think- the former address of Blogoscoped.

It's not available in other languages than English :-/

Anyway, I don't know for you, but all these new things are useless for me, because I use Google Blog Search for... search.

Matt Cutt's has posted some differences he sees between Techmeme and Blogsearch.

http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/google-blogsearch-techmeme/

I do agree with Matt on the differences, but I'm not sure that I'll find the need to go to Blogsearch AND Techmeme. I know that Techmeme has only the most reputable blogs but it looks to me like Blogsearch is at least ordering the results by reputation (as well as freshness).

For the first time it really makes sense to use it. I never liked Techmeme though, far too confusing info overload.

Well, I still see the usual blogsearch homepage. Maybe some cookie needs to be set?