Wouldn't it be fun to just create a grid of search features and search engines and rank the engines either good, bad or none (not present) on each feature?
Category | MSN | Yahoo | IceRocket | Technorati | Ask Jeeves | Feedster | |
Web search | good | good | good | good | none | good | none |
Web search RSS | none | good | good | good | none | none | none |
Blog search | good | none | good | good | good | bad | good |
Blog search RSS | good | none | good | good | good | none | good |
Tag search | none | none | good | good | good | none | none |
Tag search RSS | none | none | good | good | good | none | none |
Link search | good | bad | good | good | good | good | bad |
Link search RSS | good | bad | good | good | good | none | bad |
News search | good | good | good | good | none | good | none |
News search RSS | good | good | good | good | none | none | none |
Image search | good | good | good | bad | none | good | none |
Image search RSS | none | none | good | none | none | none | none |
Score | 16 | 12 | 24 | 21 | 12 | 9 | 6 |
If you think I'm wrong on any point, then feel free to comment. Am I missing anybody? I didn't include BlogPulse, PubSub, Blogdigger because all three seem to be experiencing brokenness these days.
Notes: I included Bloglines as part of AskJeeves. Bad usually means, it's there, but it doesn't really work. Yahoo! actually had multiple offerings in many areas like (Flickr and Yahoo! search both having image and tag searching).
Randy