To be honest, I don't know if I would ever use these tools. I used the same phrase in 3 different blog search tools - Technorati, Google Blog Search, and BlogPulse. I started with basic search in all 3 tools. They all picked up the most recent blogs, but were sorted differently. The Google Blog search found blogs basic search default seemed to be by "exact phrase" wheras the Technorati and BlogPulse tools picked up words within the phrase. It seems that the Google Blog search would be most relevant to me if I was looking for a blog about something very specific. The Google Blog search also picked up titles of blogs that had the exact phrase, but the other two were finding the words within the post.
Now, each of the tools offer "advanced searches," so you could eventually find what you wanted by changing the relevance or date. All of them offer an "ALL of the words" and "the EXACT phrase" search in the advanced search option. Some of the other available search features include a "Tag Search" in Technorati and a "With these words in the blog title/post" search option in Google Blog Search.
After entering my search phrase in each tool and getting my results, I clicked on a few blogs. I was mostly not interested in any of them since I just randomly chose a phrase, but I it was definitely an experience to see what people around the world are blogging about and how they all seem to have time to do it!!!
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