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Google To Create "Blog" Search; Potentially Remove From Main
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.
The other day, Slashdot had a database problem while running an aricle on an Oregon Bill that promoted Open Source. I thought I'd see the google cache and so:
2 39.shtm l?tid=103
a &q=Mi crosoft+Slashdot+Oregon&btnG=Search+News
Went to news.google.com
Searched for: Microsoft Slashdot Oregon
It returned a link: Oregon Bill Would Require Open Source Consideration - 18 Apr 2003.
Curiously, the link was wrongly pointing to a Mrach 6 article!! I reported this at Slashdot and got Offtopic-ed to hell, but just now, I tried again, and surprise! the mistake still exists:
Here's the link:
http://slashdot.org/articles/03/03/06/1815
in response to:
http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&edition=us
Very inriguing indeed.
If you keep throwing chairs, one day you'll break windows....
Drat! Foiled again! Gone are the days when I could put devious meta tags in my blog template to make sure that I pop up on Google. I love it when people search for something only to find MY blog pop up. HA HA HA HA HA!
No really...You know, my blog doesn't really say anything either. I just want people to read my rantings. Is it really that much of waste of time to see my blog pop up? How long does it take to click on the search result only to find that it doesn't have what you want? Huh? Like about 30 seconds? Now I gotta get shoved into some obscure category search. Really now...what are you doing searching Google that's so important that you need to save a few seconds here and there?
The problem with Google's thinking is that weblogging is becoming more and more prevalent. It's so easy for a rookie office worker to earn some extra cabbage by telling his boss "hey, I can set us up a web site real easy." You watch: more and more web logs will be seen on the web standing in as business and government web sites. Are they to be shoved into a category search as well?
Mr. Bond, they have a saying in Chicago: Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. The third time is enemy action.