Is there a good “blog search” out there?

This shows how hard it is to make such a search engine.

I tried “indie makers” and “digital nomad” in the directory and both listed only one blog: Pieter Levels. And that one is dead for quite a while and just redirects to his Twitter.

The only thing I’ve figured out that works is building a Google Custom Search Engine with your favorite list of 50-100 blogs but it’s far from perfect and doesn’t help with new discovery.

For tech specific: refined.blog is a good resource. Not necessarily sure it counts as a search engine, but definitely a good aggregation of tech blogs.

The prerequesite would be a list of non spammy blogs.

Could it be crowdsourced, similar to how ad blocker filter lists are crowdsourced?

Aren’t all those SEO optimized pages “blog posts”?

How would a search engine separate the “bad” blogs from the “good” ones?