It was almost a year ago when Yahoo! began including blogs as a subset of it's Y! News search results pages. Tonight I have notice that they are missing. There was a struggle as whether to include them within the News Search results or segregate them as was finally decided. I wonder if the battle with this decision is continuing.No clues anywhere about not including them in search results anymore. Anyone? Anyone? Bueller?
Updated 8/27/06 - I received information that this move was the result of the rampant splog problem and only a trickle of click-through traffic. Thus the overhead to operate it wasn't justified.
Second update 8/27/06: Greg Jarboe blogs: Brian Nelson, a Yahoo spokesperson, called me back to say the Blogs beta had been "temporarily taken offline to retool the offering."
So it depends on whether you believe internal communications or the PR group.
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8-26-2006 @ 4:16PM
Jeremy Zawodny said...
I suggested we do a blog post about removing the blog search feature, but that didn't go very far. :-(
Where's the cluestick when you need it?
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8-26-2006 @ 5:30PM
Michael Prieve said...
Yep, all the blogs are gone in the search results, except for the Gawker blogs. Figures.
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8-28-2006 @ 1:04AM
???? said...
As I know Yahoo paying great attention on blog, they invite a lot of famous people to login their blog. We will see what yahoo decision make.
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8-29-2006 @ 1:34PM
paisley said...
Blogs are still in the Yahoo! search results.. Search "Paisley Does Dallas"
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