Here's something you might find somewhat relevant: "Search Results Clogged by Blogs".

On a similar note, I used one of those online thingies to upload my site to a few search engines and submitted our site to yahoo.com, so it's on hotbot.com (search for "black smokers" and "science bowl") and probably a few other places. I just submitted our site to the Yahoo category that I think is most appropriate: Geek Houses, or a group of people with similar interests, from what I can tell.