“The race is on to become the Google of blogs,” says the WSJ Online today in a very useful and informative piece on blog search tools. It’s correct, of course. If it’s one thing the web needs now, it’s a Google of blogs, or rather an Occam of blogs, that helps you cut right to the original, exciting thought or factoid you didn’t even know you needed. Sometimes the mere thought of all the millions of blogs and billions of links can be overwhelming.

Good thing then that Technorati and the others are at work sharpening their tools, as noted by a blogger with a very well chosen name.