blog searching that doesn't take a month

If you check out that silver search bar thingy at the top of my blog, you'll see it has a new button: 'Search All Blogs'

This is because the google blog search has been released into beta. If you've ever used Technorati to search blogs, you'd know that while they provide a great service, it was frequently ball-bouncingly, poke-your-own-eyes-out- in-frustration-ly s-l-o-w. Conversations among the blog-savvy in the tea room would always gravitate to the same topic:

"How long will it be until google gets a similar feature, and those guys will be out of a gig?"

Looks like we'll have to find something else to talk about... whatever you want in a blog search engine, it's there. Subscribe to searches via RSS or ATOM? simple clean easy interface?...advanced search?