santapaws - 10:54 am on Dec 19, 2011 (gmt 0)

it now seems google is trying to make the distinction between news and web searches less and less obvious with cross over results being increased on an ongoing basis within each dedicated tab. I see a large rise in news sites getting large numbers of results in the organic search (pushing websites dedicated to the topic down to pages 3 and worse) while vanilla websites getting top place in news searches if they are heavyweight for that term.