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Blogs missing from Yahoo! News search results
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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Michael Prieve said 5:30PM on 8-26-2006
Yep, all the blogs are gone in the search results, except for the Gawker blogs. Figures.
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Jeremy Zawodny said 4:16PM on 8-26-2006
I suggested we do a blog post about removing the blog search feature, but that didn't go very far. :-(
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???? said 1:04AM on 8-28-2006
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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paisley said 1:34PM on 8-29-2006
Blogs are still in the Yahoo! search results.. Search "Paisley Does Dallas"
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