About Food Blog Search
Food blogs are a wonderful source of recipes, stories, and opinions about food. These blogs are the labors of love of countless people from around the world who are so passionate about what they cook and eat they spend hours photographing and writing about it. Food bloggers usually give much more information and personal touches to what they write about than commercial cooking or recipe sites. Search for a recipe among food blogs and you'll often be delighted by the hidden jewels you uncover.
Food Blog Search is a custom built search engine specifically for searching recipes in food blogs. It is intended to be a useful tool for food bloggers and for scratch cooks looking for recipes and inspiration. Food Blog Search uses Google technology, through the Google Custom Search Engine program. Started in October 2006, Food Blog Search now searches over two thousand hand-selected, high quality food blogs. More and more food blogs are added to the list of sites searched every day.
The best way to use the search engine
In a word, be specific. "Apple tart" will give you many more useful results (if you are looking for apple tart recipes) than "apple recipes". The larger, more established blogs will tend to show up highest in the search results because that's just how Google's search function works. So be ready to page through the results to find results from newer blogs.
Add to your Google homepage
If you've personalized your Google homepage, you can add a Food Blog Search gadget to your homepage. All you have to do is click on this button:
When you use your Google home page, the Food Blog Search bar will appear on it:
Add to Google Toolbar
Do you use Google Toolbar? If so, you can easily add a Food Blog Search button to your Google toolbar. This way you can easily search for recipes using Food Blog Search at any time as you browse the web. Works with Internet Explorer and Firefox.
Add to Firefox Search
The Firefox browser allows you to customize the search bar in the upper right-hand corner of the browser window. The default is Google, but if you click on the arrow next to the Google icon, you can search other sites such as Amazon, Yahoo, or eBay. To add Food Blog Search to the list of sites you can search in the Firefox search window, click here to install the custom search plugin for Food Blog Search.
How to get your blog included in the Food Blog Search engine
At the moment, we are not taking new submissions for inclusion in the search engine. This may change in the future, so check back later.
Add a Food Blog Search Widget to your website
Help your readers search fabulous food blogs by adding a search widget to your site:
Just click on these instructions for adding a Food Blog Search Widget to get the code.
Who are we?
Food Blog Search is maintained by food bloggers Elise Bauer and Kalyn Denny. The lovely illustrations in the banners were created by Ximena Maier of Lobstersquad.