A Google ghetto for blogs?
Nothing elsewhere on this, but The Register has an item on a new search tab in Google just for blogs. Which is fine, in itself, except The Register says that weblog content will be removed from Google's main index. "Bloggers too are likely to welcome their very own tab as a legitimization of the publishing format. But many others will breathe a sigh of relief as blogs disappear from the main index.
It's an open secret in the blog world that weblogs get a higher Pagerank than they deserve. But weblogs provide a vast number of timely recommendations to Google, which help the search engine serve up the right search results. Google would not abandon that link information. So, if the report is true, the only way means that Google will exclude the text of a weblog post from its main search, but still exploit the links it contains. I can't believe Google would do that, but the company should clarify. Google to fix blog noise problem [The Register]
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