Word on the street (Fine, we actually just got an email from a friend. We can't lie -- our relationship with the street is a strained one, at best) is that Blogger parent company Google is launching a beta version of their search engine for blogs. Our friends at PC World Magazine (Thanks for the correction, Matthew!) laid on a spoonful of snark over the internet monolith's move:

Despite pledging that it remains a "strong believer in the self-publishing phenomenon represented by blogging," and that it hopes the new search tool may "inspire many to join the revolution themselves," Google has also established its belief that there should be limits to people's online descriptions. A former Google employee, Mark Jen, left the firm only several weeks after the search giant asked him to remove some controversial comments he had made about the firm in his own blog.

Ouch! Hey, how'd they make it through the piece without throwing in a (admittedly irrelevant but still delicious) reference to Google CEO Eric Schmidt's spanking of CNET?

More details can be found in this San Diego Union-Tribune piece. Technorati founder David Sifry had this welcome for Google. And if you found us on the new search, hello!