Gigablast, the search engine run by one guy named Matt, allows you to do some interesting things with meta tags. Here is a search that finds all “generator” meta tags with “WordPress” and shows the tag itself in the search results. (About 1.5 million results.) I found out about this on the Gigablast blog which isn’t quite a blog. If Matt is looking for a better blog system, I have a suggestion. The results on Gigablast seem on par with Google’s for most things I tried, but the pages themselves need some UI and QA love.
It’s funny you post this, as I was thinking about the generator meta thing the other day. 1,512,486 results is a whole lot to be proud of for the WP team.
What’s even funnier is that it says “Did you mean: generator:wordiness” on that very page, while that search returns 0 results…
Does that mean there are 1.5 million WordPress blogs out there?