Millionshort.com allows you to leave out the top x sites (100/1000/100000/1000000) from a search engine. Often it will give me some personal blogs in the results. Also nice for finding random information about some topics
Great tool, Thanks! After 15 minutes trying a few obscure searches, great -not- seeing them dominated by familiar sources. (Deeper research does -not- need endless repeats of introductory stuff!)
One thing I thought would be cool would be an API for similar blogs or articles, pretty much opening up an internal part of blogosphere. I think one could use that to provide a webring.
Something I'd love: a search engine for personal websites.