Thing 11

I've decided that Thing 11 is my least favorite "thing" since I'm not exactly sure what I'm doing for this exercise.  But hey, we all have our bad days, and I'm hoping this will be my least successful posting in this journey that we call the 23 Things!

After looking at the links provided, I would say that the Google blog search function was the easiest for me, if for no other reason than I am so familiar with Google as a search engine.  However, I was confused with the results that I got.  After doing a quick search for "education," I came across a series of hits.  Unfortunately, the results that I got were not the results that I was expecting.  Up until this point, when I thought about a blog, I thought about an individual creating a site with his or her opinions, thoughts, ramblings, etc.  However, searching for "education" brought me to a listing of more organized sites than I was expecting.  My search brought me to a listing of online newspapers that didn't exactly fit my preconceived notion of a blog.  Refusing to fail, I did the next best thing.  I searched for my blog (hey, we Google ourselves, why not Google blog ourselves?).  Strike 2.  Searching for my blog did not bring me any success.

So, I left Google blogs in search for bigger and better things.  I looked at the Topix site for a bit and found a few interesting stories from my hometown, but I was in search for blogs, so after a bit of searching I left Topix and moved onto Technorati.  Once again, I searched for "education" and came up short.  I found sites on being conservative, Africa and money matters.  Not exactly the results I was looking for.  Strike 3, I'm out!