Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, system and computer program product for authorship accountability in a blog search engine. In an embodiment of the invention, a method for authorship accountability in a blog search engine is provided. The method includes receiving a search engine query specifying both query terms to query blog content and also authorship criteria for authors of blog content in respective entries of a results set returned by the search engine query. The method additionally includes evaluating the authorship criteria for each author of corresponding blog content returned by the search engine query and computing a relevance for each entry in the results set based upon the evaluated authorship criteria. Finally, the method includes presenting in order of relevance a listing of blog content corresponding to the results set.