WoW! Wouter over het Web

Just a wee little ago we saw the first search engine based on the new Google custom search technology for the library blogs, or biblioblogosphere as I like to call it. Liszen was the first, boasting an impressive 500 biblioblogs under the hood. Liszen is created and maintained by Garrett Hungerford LIS student at Wayne State University. Interestingly the blogs listed on the liswiki were the starting point for the sources of this customized search enigine. The list of currently indexed biblioblogs can be found at wiki.
All biblioblogs? Certainly not all. But still too many for some us. So Biomedbiblog created a search customized search engine for the (global) medical biblioblogs. The original source for the included medical biblioblogs was also liswiki.
Meanwhile others thought that 500 blioblogs was not near the complete biblioblogosphere whatsoever, and they created Libworm. Boasting an impressive 12oo blogs. Libworm appears not to be based on Google custom search and that is a promising sign. Die hard blogger David Rothman is involved in the project as well. The medical alternative of Libworm is Medworm. Interesting that the starting list of Libworm is an entirely different wiki, the Blogging libraries wiki.
I should submit my blog to these two search engines as well, too date my turf is not yet included. Just another little observation, it was only the librarian in black who combined the announcements of these search engines.
Meanwhile when you might be perhaps interested in only the Dutch biblioblogosphere Dymphie has created a special search engine for exactly that purpose. Thanks Dymphie. We really can use a tool like that. And yes, of course I do want the code!

Update: And Catorze has a blog search engine for the Spanish biblioblogosphere (hattip: Bibliometria)

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