def parse_blog(self, soup):
        for block in soup.find_all('li', class_='g'):
            if block.get('id') == 'newsbox':
                continue

            item = self.init_item()
            try:
                item['title'] = block.find('h3', class_="r").text.strip()
                url = block.find('h3', class_="r").a.get('href')
                link = urlparse.parse_qs(url).get('/url?q')
                if link:
                    item['link'] = link[0]
                else:
                    item['link'] = url
            except:
                print traceback.format_exc()

            try:
                tmp = block.find('div', class_="f slp")
                if tmp:
                    date_author = tmp.text
                    da = date_author.split(' by ')
                    if len(da) == 1:
                        item['date'] = da[0]
                    if len(da) == 2:
                        item['date'], item['author'] = da[0], da[1]
            except:
                print traceback.format_exc()

            try:
                item['excerpt'] = block.find('div',
                                             class_='st').text.strip()
            except:
                try:
                    item['excerpt'] = block.find('span',
                                                 class_='st').text.strip()
                except:
                    print traceback.format_exc()

            try:
                tmp = item['excerpt'].split('-', 1)
                if len(tmp) == 2:
                    ds = tmp[0]
                    if 'days ago' in ds:
                        days = int(ds.split()[0])
                        date = datetime.date.today() - datetime.timedelta(days=days)
                        date = date.strftime('%b %d, %Y')
                        item['date'] = date
                    else:
                        item['date'] = ds
            except:
                print traceback.format_exc()

            if item:
                item['search_url'] = self.search_url
                item['type'] = 'blog'
                self.count += 1
                self.work_q.put(item)