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Remember when a 1.4GHz processor was deemed the world's fastest? Man, that was ages ago. Recently, IBM has laid claim to that very record, with its 5.2GHz z196 processor being the focal point. Of course, we've seen a number of consumer chips hum along at speeds well beyond that (thanks to sophisticated cooling systems, of course), but this here enterprise chip does it without any liquid nitrogen-based assistance. It's a four-core slab that was manufactured using the outfit's 45 nanometer technology, boasting 1.4 billion transistors and the ability to handle more than 50 billion instructions per second.

 Interestingly, Fujitsu's Venus CPU is said to handle a staggering 128 billion calculations per second, so we're guessing that IBM won't be snagging this crown without any debate from the competition. At any rate, there's a very convincing video waiting for you after the break, and no, you won't find this thing in your next Alienware anytime soon.

In one of the recent activities, Google has silently launched an attractive new feature, Blog Finder, thus adding another attribute to its series of functionalities. This new feature will search for blogs across the entire web for any given topic that interests the users.

The news about the launch came up as a mere announcement in the form of a weekly search update review that was released sometime back. The new feature has great potential of being used widely for its usability. After all, nearly every surfer on the web seeks for a list of the best blogs, related to their interests.
How do you use the Blog Search feature?


For a long time, Google has been displaying a minor number of blogs, all related to the query searched by the user just above the other page results. However with this new search system, the blog search has now been parted and included as an individual service that can be availed to in the left sidebar of the search engine’s search result page.

 Click Google.com and search for any interesting topic in the search tab. Once the result page is displayed, check the left sidebar for the “Blogs” links to find a list of the best blogs related to your search query. In case the “Blogs” link does not appear on the left sidebar, click on the “more” section and then enter the “blogs” section.


Is the Search Result Worthy?


Finding related search results that provide you the best information about your query is the ideal need of all webmasters and regular users. Hence, considering the list of blogs obtained in the blog search, the feature seems to have proved its usability to all web users. However, the ranking of these blogs in the search result page is a very questionable topic. The search feature offers results in a particular order. It shows results higher on the search result page if your query dominantly matches the title of the blog. This is however not a very good logic of indicating the best blogs to the users, as the content of the blog is not at all analyzed before the blogs are ranked. This, however, acts as a drawback for the new search attribute, apart from its other advantages.


Previous to the release of this blog finder attribute, Technorati blog directory was the only source for finding a list of blogs. However, with the sun setting for the directory, Google’s blog finder acts as the best option, replacing Technorati. The new search system also supports full text search along with the other general site analysis information. The blog finder provides you a new document that includes information retrieved from the XML feeds, related page links, blog posts and details form the profile pages.