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.

Good... now I can finally find some Porno

[JohnnySkidmarks]

lousy words is gettin in the way of my pictures

Great!

[Negatyfus]

Nobody wants to read your blog and this just proves that point!

Yes!

[acehole]

Now I can find and read about people's mundane activities more efficiently.

e.g.

9:30am :- ate some toast

9:40am :- went to the toilet

10:50am :- left the toilet to check the number of hits on my blog

11:45am :- got a phone call, was wrong number. Might get a real call one day.

and so on and so forth..

Mirror

[Hard_Code]

Here is a mirror:

Google to Create Blog Search Engine? [216.239.53.104]

hmmmm...

[jeffy124]

maybe it'll solve CmdrTaco's troubles about him getting emails [slashdot.org] from people looking to crack hotmail [slashdot.org].

Re:Yes!

[Timesprout]

By your toilet reference I can see you have obviously mistaken a stream of diarrhea for someones stream of consiousness .... easy mistake to make with many of the blogs out there.

Re:blogs.google.com?

[simong_oz]

some of these blogs actually contain some pretty handy info from time to time [my emphasis]

yeh, that's true, but let's face it - the vast majority are complete and utter drivel and manage to make a cereal packet look like an interesting read.

Re:Yes! But will there be a metasearch?

[Glytch]

People suddenly deciding to not talk about themselves at great length? Not frickin' likely, alas.

Thanks for the link

[benploni]

Thanks for making Google a link to Google's web site. I would never have been able to find it! Maybe I could have googled for it. Oh wait, nevermind.

How to tell a weblog from content

[Call Me Black Cloud]

Commenters have asked how Google will tell weblogs from other web content. Obviously there is not one universal way to do this so the search engine will have to look at a number of indicators:

How often does the phrase "current mood" appear?

How often does the phrase "listening to" appear on the same page as "current mood"?

Does "George Bush" or "shrub" appear on the same page as "dictator", "simian", or "ass"?

Is Wil Wheaton mentioned on the page?

It's a start. Google will have to pay me for more...

Bloogle or Bloggle?

[Bonewalker]

I can just see the red, blue, yellow, and green logo...BLOOGLE. Will the new term for searching blogs explicitly be "Bloggling", or will it be "Bloogling"?

Re:blogs.google.com?

[poot_rootbeer]

let's face it - the vast majority are complete and utter drivel and manage to make a cereal packet look like an interesting read.

But Slashdot is a weblog... oooh, I see.

Re:'Bout time

[mcmonkey]

• Got dates all over the place

Well, that rules out /. Anyone who spends a lot of time here certainly doesn't get dates all over the place.

Re:Nice. Don't forget "hella"

[Zico]

meme
virii...People who say this one especially need to die.