Blogs Being Dropped From Google News

Posted on May 2, 2005

Blog Herald reports that their blog has been dropped as a Google News source because they publish some non-news related content. We frown on the idea that blogs cannot be considered as news sources -- especially one like the Blog Herald which consistently reports on blog-related news stories. Even newspapers run opinion pieces and non news items. Is Google going to remove these as well? If Google is going to drop blogs from its news search engine then it will become less relevant. They could at least add a tab for blogs. Yahoo has done this with its new upgrade to Yahoo News. Unfortunately, Yahoo has so far been very limiting with the "My Sources" option. Yahoo News only allows users to choose from about 10-20 pre-selected news sources and blogs. Yahoo should expand this option and allow Yahoo News users the ability to type in the URL of an RSS feed to be used a source. Users should be allowed to use any blog or news source with a RSS Feed just like they can on my.yahoo.com.

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