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Google To Create "Blog" Search; Potentially Remove From Main

Posted by Hemos on from the about-freakin'-time dept.

Skyshadow writes "Google, search engine of choice for pretty much everyone, has announced that it will begin a seperate index for blogs and remove them from the normal index, handling them instead in much the same way as their usenet archives. This will hopefully put an end to the recent difficulties locating primary source material among the mountains of blogs which are clogging the ratings system." There's been comments from elsewhere that says they won't be removing them - but that remains to be seen.

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  1. Re:journals by Cyberdyne · · Score: 5, Informative
    Oh, wait.... It says "User-agent: Mediapartners-Google*" can scan everything. This surprises me however. Still, that's not "GoogleBot", which I see from time to time in my apache logs.

    Anybody got an idea what "Mediapartners-Google*" exactly is?

    Mediapartners-Google would appear to be Google's ad engine - it tries to determine "relevant" ads for the page by spidering it beforehand. Presumably, you would only see hits from that bot if you serve Google text-ads; GoogleBot is the crawler which drives the actual search engine.

    (Aside: Those text ads were quite tricky to filter out - not being images, there's no 'block images' option! Putting "127.0.0.1 pagead.googlesyndication.com" in /etc/hosts did the trick, though...)

  2. The Register is... a bit off by friedegg · · Score: 5, Informative
    "GoogleGuy" (a real Google employee) commented on this on WebmasterWorld saying:
    I think Andrew Orlowski is taking a comment and taking it in the direction that he wants to go. I would take that article with a grain of salt.

    GoogleGuy, going for understatement. :)
    --
    Google doesn't index user sigs, so stop trying to "Google Bomb" with them.
  3. The real story: Orlowski (successfully) trolls /. by marmoset · · Score: 5, Informative

    Oy. If Slashdot had managed to perform even a minimum amount of editorial diligence (which, pot, here's kettle, is what the Register rails on bloggers for not doing), they'd have found pretty quickly that this article is yet another installment in Andrew Orlowski's (an up-and-coming Dvorak-wannabe) ongoing jihad against weblogs. Don't believe the hype.

  4. Not Quite by emmastory · · Score: 5, Informative

    Google hasn't announced any such thing, at least as far as removing weblog content from the main search is concerned. If you read the article, you'll note that it's Orlowski speculating about a Slashdot comment, of all things - specifically, a comment from the William Gibson blog thread. evhead posted about this Register article on Friday.