blogs w/o RSS?

I just found out that there's a new blog search site around - BlogRunner. It seems similar to Feedster, but with one important difference - Feedster offers support for ad-hoc (search) feeds (as does BlogDigger, and BlogRunner doesn't. Limits its usefullness, to my mind. Not as bad as the hokey email registration scheme that pubsub uses, but heck - you would think a service that indexes blogs would grok the importance of syndication...