Ask HN: How do you find good personal blogs on Google nowadays?

I don't use Google. Instead I turn to:

Also worth mentioning the goat:

And some others to check out including blog posts about discovering blog posts on this blog post:

https://outerweb.org/blog/web-discovery.html

Are there any indexes which index all of these too?

I don't know. All of those sites seem to be small, personal passion projects. I'm sure that more than a few people with personal blogs submit to all of them

Kagi’s small web app is fun: https://kagi.com/smallweb/

There is probably some query-fu to do this but Google has made it very difficult. If you follow the trials and tribulations of SEOs there have been a few big changes that make blogs difficult to find using their search engine. The EEAT principle was abandoned in favor of domain authority, basically it doesn't matter how good your content is, your domain has to be popular. Also Google Search Console stopped indexing large swaths of peoples' personal pages (but did crawl them).

TLDR: if you use Google for this you are gonna have a bad time.

Step 1: Stop using Google. You can try Kagi for web search.

I don't. Except for long-tail keywords, Marginalia Search / Kagi Small Web / Wiby / Million Short are better options, or one of the many blog/small web directories that have made the frontpage in recent months.

Another good search engine for personal blogs: https://wiby.me

Personally, I think it has become difficult to find good blogs through Google alone.

My approach is to start from trust platforms such as LinkedIn, and look at people who have relatively senior or credible positions. Then I check whether they have a personal blog.

Good blogs often support RSS. My own blog, makonea, does not support it yet, but in general this is a useful signal.

So when I try to find good blogs on Google, I search for the topic together with keywords like “RSS.”