Introducing China and Taiwan Blog Search Tools

Available now is a new search tool for the China and Taiwan English blogsphere.

Background

I follow hundreds of China and Taiwan related English blogs and have come to acknowledge that they serve as a vital indispensable source of information for life in China and Taiwan. For a while now, I have been wondering how I could get all the China English blogsphere and the Taiwan English blogsphere into a community that would allow people, like myself, to easily find information from those blogs. The China Analyst (http://www.chinalyst.net) was my first project, listing more than 50 blogs, but since it’s a new community that blog owners join – it still doesn’t include many wonderful China/Taiwan blogs that are still hiding out there.

Every now and again there are some nice tools and projects that aim at helping to find China/Taiwan blogs, such as the RIP LivinginChina, China-Blog-List, Taiwan-Feed, Bloggers in Taiwan, Michael Turton blog collection.

Using Google’s powerful tools, I’d like to introduce a new simple tool I created for performing a search in China or Taiwan related English blogs. I’ve gathered all my RSS feed links, all the blogs registered in Chinalyst and in the projects mentioned above, plus many links from linkrolls and sidebars in the popular China/Taiwan blogs and have created a custom search for the China and Taiwan blogspheres.

The Search tool

This Search tool now covers over 400 China blogs and 400 Taiwan blogs (!).

Here, just give the search tool a test drive (requires that Javascript is enabled in your browser) :

China Blog Search 

Or check the homepage

Taiwan Blog Search 

Or check the homepage

Want to add this search tool to your blog or website (look at my sidebar)? No problem, add the following code :

Put the China Blog Search on your blog/website

Javascript code

<!– Google CSE Search Box Begins –>
<form id="searchbox_009510974112669170466:5_6ft9agx4c" action="http://www.google.com/cse">
<input type="hidden" name="cx" value="009510974112669170466:5_6ft9agx4c" />
<input name="q" type="text" size="20" />
<input type="submit" name="sa" value="Search" />
<input type="hidden" name="cof" value="FORID:1" />
</form>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.google.com/coop/cse/brand?form=searchbox_009510974112669170466%3A5_6ft9agx4c"></script>
<!– Google CSE Search Box Ends –>

No Javascript code

<form id="searchbox_009510974112669170466:5_6ft9agx4c" action="http://www.google.com/cse">
<input type="hidden" name="cx" value="009510974112669170466:5_6ft9agx4c" />
<table>
<tr>
<td><input name="q" type="text" size="20" /></td>
<td><input type="submit" name="sa" value="Search" /></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="2"><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size:83%">China Blog Search</span></td>
</tr>
</table>
<input type="hidden" name="cof" value="FORID:1" />
</form>

Put the Taiwan Blog Search on your blog/website

Javascript code

<!– Google CSE Search Box Begins –>
<form id="searchbox_009510974112669170466:nr3jzdqtl9k" action="http://www.google.com/cse">
<input type="hidden" name="cx" value="009510974112669170466:nr3jzdqtl9k" />
<input name="q" type="text" size="20" />
<input type="submit" name="sa" value="Search" />
<input type="hidden" name="cof" value="FORID:1" />
</form>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.google.com/coop/cse/brand?form=searchbox_009510974112669170466%3Anr3jzdqtl9k"></script>
<!– Google CSE Search Box Ends –>

No Javascript code

<form id="searchbox_009510974112669170466:nr3jzdqtl9k" action="http://www.google.com/cse">
<input type="hidden" name="cx" value="009510974112669170466:nr3jzdqtl9k" />
<table>
<tr>
<td><input name="q" type="text" size="20" /></td>
<td><input type="submit" name="sa" value="Search" /></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="2"><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size:83%">Taiwan Blog Search</span></td>
</tr>
</table>
<input type="hidden" name="cof" value="FORID:1" />
</form>

Add China/Taiwan Blog Search to your Google Homepage

Would you like to add this Search tool to your Google Homepage? Just follow those links :

• To add China Blog Search to your Google Homepage click here.
• To add Taiwan Blog Search to your Google Homepage click here.

Updated 28/11/2006 – You can also add the China/Taiwan Blog Search to your IE7/Firefox2 web-browser.

I will make a monthly visit to the blog-lists mentioned above and update the search tool. But, if you’ve searched for your blog and it doesn’t show up here, feel free to write me or comment here and I’ll be happy to add the blog to the list. 

Also feel free to give me any kind of feedback and suggestions.

Enjoy.