Week 4, Thing 9: Explore MERLIN/Other search tools

I tried out all the search tools provided for this week's thing. The one I liked the best and found simplest to use was Technorati. I liked it because it was specifically for finding blogs. I don't have a problem finding news feeds and other things like that, but sometimes I find it really difficult to find new blogs on topics that interest me. Technorati makes it easy and generally provides good results. I don't think I would use a lot of these search tools on a regular basis, simply because I don't need them. Sometimes it can just be a little too much information! However, I am glad I found Technorati and I think it will be helpful (and fun!) to me in the future.