Looking for something about Taiwan? try the Taiwan blog search

IMHO, Taiwan blogs have the best English content about Taiwan. When I’m looking for something, like a travel destination, blogs are the first place I go to. This is why back in Q4/2006 I introduced the Taiwan blog search. It allows a quick search through over 400 Taiwan blogs. I haven’t updated the list of blogs for quite a while, but since nowadays I’m doing a small related project, I thought this would be a good time to refresh. It’s quite simple really, and you can make your own. The procedure was :

1. Install Xenu.
2. Check all outgoing links from the Bloggers in Taiwan and Michael Turton’s list.
3. Export to a CSV. Open with a CSV editor (Office Excel will do fine).
4. Filter all the garbage and websites not responding. Remove duplicates.
5. Paste the URLs into Google custom search.

The result is a Taiwan Blog Search. If you think this is useful, there are a few things you can do with it :

• Use it.
• Add it as a search provider to your Firefox/IE search toolbar.
• Put the Taiwan blog search on your blog/website.

This is what putting it on your website would look like (try it out) :

If your Taiwan blog doesn’t show up in there, I suggest one of the following :

• Add your blog to the Taiwan blog directory, and every once in a while the exported OPML will be synced with the Taiwan blog search.
• Contact me.
• Volunteer to contribute and add it yourself.

Feedback & comments welcome.