I am afraid I have never been to Canada, or, is it, I am afraid, therefore I have never been to Canada. Whatever the philosophical angle, I thought I would mention the topic of Canadian Blog Search Engines. (CBSE's)

Google first brought CBSE's to my attention via Analytics. It was the most searched-for keyword phrase of visitors to my site. Surprising, seeing as I haven't adressed this particular niche. Soooo let's take this one bit at a time.

Canada

As I said, I have never been to Canada, so what do I know, but this guy has a good opinion of the country - and Canada's attitude to search.

Canada for my money is the greatest nation in the world. We have the beautiful Rocky Mountains, prairies, lakes, rivers and streams. (We have one third of the world's fresh water supply.) We have hockey, we created Superman and we invented the telephone. We take care of the old and the sick and each other. We use search more than anyone else, someone just forgot to mention that to the advertisers in Canada.

OK, so I see references that could apply to Britain in that eulogy, (was the greatest nation on earth, beautiful rocks, priories, Lake District, the Thames, my mother played hockey as a girl, the NHS and they IM like nobody else on earth) but I get the idea about Canada being a cool place where the internet plays a major role in daily life. In fact...

Canadians use the Internet more than anyone else in the world. We perform more sophisticated queries, are more focused in our online behavior, and do more searches. So why then if you were a Canadian business targeting the Canadian marketplace would you not use search to reach your audience?

Wherever there is internet, there is a need for search, but there is a criticism leveled here that commercial sites don't harness the likes of Adsense search engine driven ads. Who knows why this is so. Perhaps the profitability of online businesses in Canada doesn't suffer because of this aversion to search marketing? Perhaps they don't see the sense in taking on search-related expenses just to grow a business to pay for those expenses. It wouldn't be the first time Canadians looked at things differently from their neighbors.

Canadian Blogs

If a company wants to educate itself on a topic, there is a wealth of blogs out there from specialists in the field. You just have to find them. I am of no use to anyone as a resource for Canada specific search blogs. For what it is worth, I read McGrath.ca on a regular basis, and used to peruse John Chow, till I grew sick of Chinese Canadian food shots and the insane amount of money that guy is making. So ends my library of blogs, north of the border.

But doing some search of my own, I see there is a whole raft of top Canadian blogs going for awards. I haven't read them, sorry. Looking through, however, I couldn't see much about tech in there. So perhaps the above criticism of commercial sites being search marketing averse is true, due to a lack of local info? Let's delve further in the Canadian blogger gene pool.

Canadian blog search engines

What where how why when tech blogs are there in Canada that talk about Search and search marketing? This Canadian blog search engine is somewhat sparse on the ground with its list of Canada blogs.

Moving on, Acrosscan, clever name for a Canadian search engine, but a bit of a dead end looking for Search marketing blogs, and Canadian search engine blogs wasn't much better. Frankly, I gave up and resorted to Google.ca.

The only trouble with the 250 strong list of search related blogs is - despite asking for Canadian web pages - this excellent Google result isn't Canada specific. So what am I to conclude from this quick meander into Canada?

Basically, I need to sharpen up my search skills, and / or Canadian companies really are struggling for a Canada specific pool of search related info. Anyone with a handle on this situation care to shed some light?

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