Show HN: a blog search engine (opens in new tab)

Nice! As much as I like the minimalistic approach, I feel this need a bit more explanation. What does "blog search" mean? Does it search for blogs or within blogs? What is the definition of a blog? Which blogs does it search? How does it determine whether something is a blog or not (my blog does not seem to be included) Why would I want to specifically search blogs and not just use Google? These questions matter and should be explained by the product itself :)

Nice. Though, I agree with others that an explanation would kind of be helpful. Also since you're going with the minimalist approach, maybe make everything a bit bigger?

Are you just searching within a subset of domains? If so, may I shamelessly recommend adding http://throwww.com to the list?

What advantages does Soto Search offer over Google Blogsearch (http://www.google.com/blogsearch) or Icerocket (http://www.icerocket.com/)?

Nice start! It's great to see small initiatives like this grow.

Question: how are results being ranked? I did a search for "creativity" and got a slew of outdated (~22 days) results. Not quite what I was expecting.

some critics: http://sotosearch.com/search?query=android&ordering=best - results page is a mess of many languages, it would be better to detect language of page and user (by browser language) and use it for ranking

Honestly, the results are terrible.

Use cases?

Stack?

Did not work for me at all. Just keeps showing the spinning search indicator. I suspect Google Blog Search is about 1e+6 times more elaborate, so hardly there are any perspectives. Kudos for doing something anyway.