atlrus - 12:42 pm on Jul 20, 2006 (gmt 0)

MSNDUDE,
I beg to differ. Here is how it's done - a person creates about 5000 blogs on, let say blogspot, throws some auto generated text on them, inter-links them - and there you have it - 5000 blogs link to 20 related blogs, and 10 of them get into the top 20 results on MSN.

It's so simple, even Google was able to "get it", and I have to congratulate them on their "blog search" feature. And they have almost no blogs in the search results I monitor, deffinitely none in the top 100 results.

And if we have to real about it - "Joe's blog" would never be able to compete against a normal website, as the website would get far more links than the blog. So all the blogs that rank on top spots on MSN are only ONLY spam blogs.

And I am not asking to "discriminate" against blogs, just ask your engeneers to spend a day and create a separate category just for blogs. I dont think it will be all that hard to do, and it will greatly clean your results.