Only three short days ago the LISZEN search engine was made available. Using the new Google Co-op functionality Garrett Hungerford of the Library Zen blog has created a search engine that covers over 500 blogs in the area of Library and Information Science. Garrett used the list of blogs at the LISWiki to create the search engine and has invited people to let him know about other sites that should be included. More information is in the original post on Garrett’s website.

In a follow up post Garret has a graph that shows the tremendous increase in traffic the site has received in only three days. A true testament to the power to the biblioblogosphere and more generally the blogosphere. The biblioblogosphere, as defined by Wikipedia is

A humorous reference to the world of librarian blogging

A world which I must say I’m glad to be participating in.

Fortunately a generous soul added the librariesinteract.info blog to the LISWiki some time ago, so we’re also included. I look forward to watching this site develop, as well as Google Co-op generally and seeing what other people can do with it.