Checking one's incoming links on Sitemeter, Technorati and Google Blogsearch is essential tool for a blogger - it allows one to notice responses to one's posts in approximately real time, so the blog-to-blog conversation can continue fluently.
But, for a couple of weeks now, Google Blogsearch has been useless. They have changed the algorithm so, instead of picking up only links from individual blog posts, it picks up links from all sorts of widgets, blogrolls, etc. and thus floods the search with tons of useless hits. I have no idea who just posted a blog response to something I said, and who just updated the blog and the blogroll got updated with it.
This is more than useless. Anyone at Google listening? I am sure they must be flooded with protest messages! How hard it would be to revert to the old algorithm while working on a better one behind the scenes?
I'm not sure if the phenomena are related, but I have noticed that my WordPress "incoming links" now includes all posts on which the blog includes my site in the blogroll.
Google has its own secret. Sometime they change the algorithm.
I dont care about this, for me blogging is an fun activities. If people visit my blog then they are satisfied with my post i will be so happy..