Google Blog Search Now Clusters Hot Topics

As of recently the Google Blog Search homepage consisted of a simple search box, but now it looks more like Google News or Techmeme: it groups related stories into groups. To the left side of each cluster, you'll see how many blogs discussed this story recently, and the way this is formatted may remind you of sites like social news Digg. It would be interesting to know if Google gives more weight to popular or high-PageRanked blogs here. At the far left there's a navigation, again similar to Google News, which offers several topic categories like Politics, Technology, Movies, and even Video Games. As opposed to Google News though, search results ...