I have to admit that when I wrote yesterday’s Alltop.com blog post that I hadn’t checked these three blog directories all that recently:

MyBlogLog

Technorati

Blog Catalog

I got thinking about this a bit and decided that I should check these three out again to ensure that I hadn’t missed anything new.

My opinion of MyBlogLog and Technorati hasn’t changed much. Yes, you can do keyword searches, but I don’t care for the way that they lay out the results. It would be great if everything for a search could somehow fit on one page, but they limit the number of visible searches per page and then you have to wade through some busy screens. By contrast, Alltop gives you all blogs per category on a single screen, then you just scroll through them. I like that better.

I acknowledge that Technorati does give you some useful functions for search by post as well as by blog, plus it does try to select and publish top posts in various subject areas at any given point in time, but that’s why I would normally use my Google Reader feed or perhaps Google Blog Search for finding stuff.

I hadn’t looked at Blog Catalog recently and was pleased to find the following directory - I can’t remember if it has always been there. You’ll need to click on the image to see it, sorry.

blog catalog

This structure is better than I remembered. However, you still run into the problem that I mentioned before: once you refine your search results further you still have to click, click, click through various screens to see everything.

The main reason I’m writing this is to say that these blog directories are not bad, but there are aspects of the interface that I don’t care for.

The other limiting factor to consider about blog directories, of course, is that if a blog owner doesn’t choose to list their blog in the directory, you won’t find it there. Nor is it a sure thing that your blog will get listed in any of these directories.

At least we do have multiple options for finding blogs!

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